Starting to eat before 8:30 a.m. would lower blood sugar and insulin resistance, reducing the risk of developing type 2 diabetes.
- Too short a gap between meals increases insulin resistance.
- Meal timing has a greater impact on blood glucose levels and insulin resistance than the duration between meals.
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day and has a very close relationship with blood sugar. To better control it, it is preferable to play sports before swallowing your first meal and to drink your coffee after breakfast. In a new study, presented virtually at the Endocrine Society’s annual meeting, researchers from Northwestern University in Chicago suggest that eating breakfast before 8:30 a.m. lowers blood sugar levels as well as insulin resistance and thus reducing the risk of developing type 2 diabetes.
Good meal timing
In this study, the researchers found that the time and spacing between meals play an important role in insulin resistance and the development of type 2 diabetes. They noted that too much spacing between meals increases insulin resistance, but people who eat before 8:30 a.m. have less insulin resistance and lower blood sugar, regardless of the time left between meals. “We found that people who started eating earlier in the day had lower blood sugar and less insulin resistance, whether they limited their food intake to less than 10 hours a day or spread it out over more than 13 hours a day”, noted Marriam Ali, the principal researcher.
For this research, the scientists studied 10,575 volunteers who were divided into three groups according to the spacing of meals during the day: the first spread out his meals over less than 10 hours, the second between 10 and 13 hours and the third over more than 13 hours. They then divided the participants according to the time of breakfast (before or after 8:30 am).
Improve metabolic health
“With an increase in metabolic disorders such as diabetes, we wanted to broaden our understanding of nutritional strategies to help address this growing concern.said Marriam Ali. Previous studies have shown that time-restricted eating, which consolidates the eating strategy at a shortened time interval each day, has consistently shown improved metabolic health.”
Type 2 diabetes, which accounts for approximately 90% of diabetes cases, is characterized by chronic hyperglycemia, that is, too high a concentration of sugar in the blood. This is due to too much resistance to insulin, the role of which is to reduce the level of sugar in the blood. “Findings suggest timing is more strongly associated with metabolic measures than duration, and support early feeding strategies”, concluded the researcher.
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