Consuming earlier than 08:30 may assist cut back sort 2 diabetes danger

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The time people eat breakfast could help reduce their risk of type 2 diabetes, the researchers said.

A team at Northwestern University in Chicago found evidence that eating at 8:30 a.m. lowers blood sugar levels and there is less resistance to insulin.

The lead researcher Dr. Marriam Ali said, “We found that people who started eating earlier in the day had lower blood sugar levels and less insulin resistance, whether they restricted their food intake to less than 10 hours a day or whether their food intake was spread out more than 13 hours a day.

“With the rise of metabolic disorders like type 2 diabetes, we wanted to broaden our understanding of nutritional strategies to address this growing problem.”

The study included analyzing data from more than 10,000 people who had previously participated in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.

They were divided into three groups depending on their total length of food intake, which lasted less than 10 hours, 10-13 hours and more than 13 hours per day.

Based on these findings, the research team digged deeper into the data and created subgroups based on when people started eating.

They could then look at their timings and daily patterns and compare them to people’s blood sugar levels, which found those who started eating before 8:30 a.m. and who lowered their blood sugar levels.

Dr. Ali added, “These results suggest that timing is more closely related to metabolic actions than duration, and support early eating strategies.”

The results were presented virtually at ENDO 2021, the annual meeting of the Endocrine Society.