Eating breakfast early in the morning may help to reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes, suggests a new study. And by early, researchers aren’t suggesting the crack of dawn but before 8am.
The new study—conducted by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (also referred to as ISGlobal)—evaluated more than 100,000 people, most of whom were women, and found that eating breakfast after 9am may increase the risk of developing type 2 diabetes by nearly 60 percent, compared with those who eat it before 8am.
The findings are in line with an approach called chrono-nutrition, which focuses on the link between nutrition and circadian biology.
“We know that meal timing plays a key role in regulating circadian rhythms and glucose and lipid control, but few studies have investigated the relationship between meal timing or fasting and type 2 diabetes,” the study’s first author Anna…