How To Lose Weight? Eat All Food Within 10 Hours, New Health Study Claims

How to lose weight? Well, this question has many answers from avoiding junk to eating healthy to doing exercises. A new health study claims eating all food within 10 hours can help in losing weight, staving off metabolic disease and maintaining health.

Led by one of an Indian-origin, the new study conducted over mice suggests that the health problems associated with disruptions to animals’ 24-hour rhythms of activity and rest- which in human beings is linked to eating for loads of the day or doing shift work- can be corrected by eating entire day’s calories within a 10-hour window.

Satchidananda Panda, Professor at the Salk Institute, said a lot of people begin their day with a cup of coffee first thing in the morning and end with a bedtime snack 14 or 15 hours later. According to Panda, restricting food intake to 10 hours a day, and eating nothing after that can result in better health, regardless of the biological clock.

The researchers demonstrated that the circadian clock maintains a balance between sufficient nutrition during the fed state and necessary rejuvenation during fasting. But, in humans who perform shift work or who has genetic defects, the internal clock gets disrupted and the balance breaks down resulting in various diseases.

For the purpose of the study, the research team disabled the genes responsible for maintaining the biological clock in mice, including in the liver, which regulates many metabolic functions. They then divided the mice into two groups. While one group had access to food around the clock, the other had access to the same number of calories only during a 10-hour window.

It was found that the group that could eat at any time became obese and developed metabolic diseases. However, the group that consumed the same number of calories within a 10-hour window remained lean and healthy despite not having an internal biological clock.

“Many of us may have one or more disease-causing defective genes that make us feel helpless and destined to be sick,” Panda said. “The finding that a good lifestyle can beat the bad effects of defective genes opens new hope to stay healthy.”

The study has been published in the journal Cell Metabolism.