A smartphone app reveals erratic diurnal eating patterns in humans that can be modulated for health benefits
By S. Gill, Satchidananda Panda. Cell Metabolism, 2015
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Summary A diurnal rhythm of eating-fasting promotes health, but humans’ eating pattern is rarely assessed. Using a mobile app, we monitored ingestion events in healthy adults with no shift-work for several days. Most subjects ate frequently and erratically throughout wakeful hours and overnight fasting duration paralleled time in bed. There was a bias toward eating late, with estimated <25% calories being consumed before noon and >35% after 6pm. “Metabolic jetlag” resulting from weekday/weekend variation in eating pattern akin to travel across time-zones was prevalent. The daily intake duration (95% interval) exceeded 14.75 h for half the cohort. When overweight individuals with >14 h eating duration ate for only 10–11 h daily for 16 weeks assisted by a data visualization (raster plot of dietary intake pattern, “feedogram”) that we developed, they reduced body weight, reported being energetic, and improved sleep. Benefits persisted for a year.
Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Physiology
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- Early Time-Restricted Feeding Improves Insulin Sensitivity, Blood Pressure, and Oxidative Stress Even without Weight Loss in Men with Prediabetes. (2018, positive): “, 2007), food intake (Gill and Panda, 2015; Tinsley et al., 2017), and body weight (Gill and Panda, 2015; Moro et al.”
- Ten-hour time-restricted eating reduces weight, blood pressure, and atherogenic lipids in patients with metabolic syndrome (2019, methodology): “Prior studies have shown that overweight or obese adults who habitually eat for ≥14 h can safely adopt an 8-10 h interval of TRE over several weeks and achieve weight loss (Gabel et al., 2018a; Gabel et al., 2018b; Gill and Panda, 2015; Hutchison et al., 2019).”