Is it really good to skip dinner?

Recently, a research team from Peking Union Medical College Hospital has provided new scientific evidence that skipping dinner is more beneficial to metabolic health

Many studies have found that compared with eating when you want, doing "day fasting" to control the time window of eating more strictly may be more beneficial for weight loss and fat reduction

However, there are 16 hours in addition to 8 hours of sleep

"Early eating" is usually in the morning and the first half of the afternoon, such as 6 am to 2 pm, 7 am to 3 pm, 8 am to 4 pm this pattern

One study found that eating a time-restricted morning (8am to 2pm) for 3 days can reduce appetite and promote fat oxidation, which can help prevent and reduce obesity

Another study found that the 8 a.

Many previous studies have found that adjusting the focus of a day's diet to daytime and eating less or not at night may be beneficial for preventing obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, which may be determined by the circadian rhythm

In this experiment, the meal window for "early eating" was between 6:00 a.

If the meal time of 8 hours and 6 hours is a bit short, it is very easy to control it within 12 hours

To sum up, if there is a need to reduce fat, lose weight, stabilize blood sugar, and the burden of work, study and exercise in the evening is relatively light, then you can eat like this: focus on eating within 8-10 hours, and don’t eat when you want.

Although the time of eating changes, the following requirements must be met at the same time: the content of the food is healthy, and it is not because it is "time-restricted eating" that you can eat unhealthy snacks, drinks, fried foods,

An easier way is to just eat dinner early

Therefore, if you can really eat three meals a day, eat dinner early, do not eat snacks between meals, and do not drink sweet drinks, it is enough to achieve the goal of preventing obesity

　　In addition, people who need to gain weight, patients with gastrointestinal diseases, patients with liver and kidney diseases, malnourished people, pregnant women, nursing mothers, and developing children should use the time-restricted eating pattern for 8 hours or less with caution

　　Finally, a word of advice: If you really want to give up dinner, you must cooperate with the life style of going to bed early and getting up early

　　(Source: Fan Zhihong_original nutritional information)

"China Food News" (03 edition on April 6, 2022)

　　(Editor-in-charge: Han Songyan)