MEAL TIMING A FACTOR THAT CAN PROMOTE WEIGHT LOSS

Meal timing is a critical and independent factor that can help promote weight loss

To conduct the study and determine the importance of food timing with respect to weight loss, researchers studied 420 overweight participants from Spain who followed a 20-week weight loss treatment program. The participants were divided into two groups (early-eaters, main meal before 3 p.m. and late-eaters, main meal after 3 p.m.) based on the self-selected timing of the main meal, which was lunch in this cohort of Mediterranean volunteers. Participants consumed 40 percent of their daily calories at lunchtime, widely considered to be the main meal in Spain.

The team found that late-eaters lost significantly less weight than early-eaters, and displayed a much slower rate of weight . Late-eaters also had a lower estimated insulin sensitivity, placing them at significantly higher risk for diabetes. Dr. Sheer concluded, "This is the first large-scale prospective study to demonstrate that the timing of meals predicts weight-loss effectiveness... novel therapeutic strategies should incorporate not only the caloric intake and macronutrient distribution, as it is classically done, but also the timing of food."

Interestingly, the researchers found that late-eaters losing the least amount of weight also consumed fewer calories   during breakfast and were more likely to skip the first daily meal altogether, supporting previous studies concluding the importance of eating a high protein breakfast to stimulate weight loss. Scientists also accounted for other traditional factors that play a role in weight  loss such as total calorie intake and expenditure, the appetite hormones leptin and ghrelin, and sleep duration, and found no differences between the two groups, indicating that meal timing is a critical and independent risk factor for weight loss.

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