An American study has just shown that eating breakfast early in the morning can reduce the risk of developing type 2 diabetes. According to researchers at Northwestern University in Chicago, people who eat before 8:30 am have less resistance to it. insulin and lower blood sugar.
Eating early may lower your risk of developing type 2 diabetes
Researchers at Northwestern University in Chicago in the United States revealed at the annual meeting of the Endocrine Society that eating breakfast before 8:30 a.m. could help lower blood sugar and insulin resistance. In other words, eating early could reduce the risk of developing type 2 diabetes. To arrive at this finding, the researchers analyzed the medical data of 10,575 volunteers divided into three groups. The first group had for instructions, to spread the meals over less than 10 hours, the second had to spread the meals between 10 and 13 hours and the third over more than 13 hours.
The scientists thus noted that a too short spacing between the meals could increase the resistance to insulin. They also found that people who eat before 8:30 a.m. have less resistance to insulin and have lower blood sugar levels, regardless of the time between meals. As the study’s lead author, Marriam Ali, explains, “ 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 per day, or were spread over more than 13 hours a day “.
A food limited in time
In presenting their results, the researchers recalled that previous studies had already shown that a diet limited in time (that is to say a diet whose time slot of food consumption is limited to less than 10 hours per day) is synonymous with improving metabolic health and is therefore a way to prevent diabetes. According to Marriam Ali, “ With an increase in metabolic disorders such as diabetes, we wanted to broaden our understanding of nutritional strategies to help address this concern. “. To which she concludes: ” Results suggest timing is more strongly associated with metabolic metrics than duration, and support early feeding strategies “.
