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Related: About this forumNighttime fasting may foster weight loss
By Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times
May 18, 2012, 5:00 a.m.
In an age of long commutes, late sports practices, endless workdays and 24/7 television programming, the image of Mom hanging up her dish towel at 7 p.m. and declaring "the kitchen is closed" seems a quaint relic of an earlier era.
It also harks back to a thinner America. And that may be no coincidence.
A new study, conducted on mice, hints at an unexpected contributor to the nation's epidemic of obesity and, if later human studies bear it out, a possible way to have our cake and eat it too, with less risk of weight gain and the diseases that come with it.
Just eat your cake or better yet, an apple earlier. Then wait 16 hours, until breakfast the next morning, to eat again.
"We have to come up with something that is a simple alternative to calorie counting," said Satchidananda Panda, a regulatory biologist at the Salk Institute in La Jolla who led the study published online Thursday by the journal Cell Metabolism.
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kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)dinner has to wait until I get home from work and can prepare it, so that's not usually until after 7.
But I'm only 7 lb over my ideal weight, so I'll keep doing what I'm doing.
laconicsax
(14,860 posts)"Isn't nighttime fasting the norm? Most people don't eat while they sleep."
ladywnch
(2,672 posts)I'v'e dropped almost 40 lbs now. My chiropractor told me about this and I didin't listen for the longest time. I finally set a hard rule ( my husband doesn't even consider dinner before 8 and then deep fried if at all possible) I wouldn't eat dinner after 8 anymore.....period. He doesn't like it. We rarely eat together anymore, but I don't care. I feel great and look better!
RagAss
(13,832 posts)I just finished my midnight snack and I know that's all I need to eliminate to lose these 8 extra pounds I carry.
CTyankee
(63,914 posts)In Spain, they don't even start dinner until 9 p.m. and it seems they are still at it at midnight. I swear I don't know how they get up the next day and go to work. They also drink wine with those evening meals and how they do that so late at night I'll never know. I like my wine with dinner but since my dinner is usually at 6:30, I'm finished with wine by 7:30. But the Spanish are into to their digestivo type drinks after dinner, like the Italians with their grappa. Those drinks would bore a hole in my stomach...
safeinOhio
(32,739 posts)I'm a good guinea pig.
Best time for me is a fast from 8 pm until 12 noon. Started yesterday. Also started eating Indian gooseberries.
After a year of working midnights my numbers skyrocketed at my physical. Quit that job and now work 10 am until 6 pm, no 10 pm until 6 am.
BadgerKid
(4,559 posts)by eating at all hours of the day, you give your body a chance to run on fat-rich fuel more often.
HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)Meeting 1600 kcal demand within 8 hours everyday 7 days a week for a year would result in pathologic blood sugars for type II diabetics.
MorningGlow
(15,758 posts)I eat dinner around 5:30 and not one morsel more passes my lips till the following morning. No effect.
Eat dinner and just cut out all snacking before bedtime. Done wonders for me. Well, that and cutting down to one soda a week and eating better overall.