When you eat could be just as important as what you eat.
According to everydayhealth.com, report in the “International
Journal of Obesity” on research from Brigham and Women’s
Hospital. Specifically, eating a large lunch later in the day
(after 3 p.m.) results in significantly less weight loss than
eating lunch before 3 p.m., researchers concluded after studying
more than 400 overweight adults for 20 weeks. Participants who
ate lunch later also had lower insulin sensitivity, an important
risk factor for type 2 diabetes. The study used data from
Spanish participants, and in Spain, lunch is the largest meal of
the day, including about 40 percent of total daily calories. So
it’s not clear how closely this data would apply to a typical
American diet. (Most Americans eat light lunches and larger
dinners.) But, said lead researcher Frank Scheer, PhD in a press
release, the results lend credence to the diet wisdom to eat
breakfast like a king, dinner like a pauper. Scheer and his
colleagues say this is the first lar