Recent research has found those who eat later in the day could be negatively impacting any efforts to slim down.
A study published by researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital followed 16 overweight or obese patients. The patients were split into two groups, one which ate meals at 9am, 1pm and 6pm, and another which ate at 1pm, 6pm and 9pm.
After taking blood samples, it was found those who ate later on got hungrier, burned calories at a slower rate and stored more fat in appendages.
Results revealed that eating later had profound effects on hunger and appetite-regulating hormones leptin and ghrelin, which influence our drive to eat.
First author Nina Vujovic, PhD, said: "In this study, we asked, 'Does the time that we eat matter when everything else is kept consistent?'
"And we found that eating four hours later makes a significant difference for our hunger levels, the way we burn calories after we eat, and the way we store fat."
The researcher in the Medical Chronobiology Program in the Brigham's Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders found that those eating later had more fat being stored through adipogenesis.
While some changes caused by eating later were identified, the researchers hope to carry out larger-scale studies and recruit more women as this study included only five female participants.
Going forward, the researchers are also interested in better understanding the effects of the relationship between meal time and bedtime on energy balance.
"This study shows the impact of late versus early eating," said senior author Frank A. J. L. Scheer, PhD, Director of the Medical Chronobiology Program at Brigham's.
"Here, we isolated these effects by controlling for confounding variables like caloric intake, physical activity, sleep, and light exposure, but in real life, many of these factors may themselves be influenced by meal timing.
"In larger scale studies, where tight control of all these factors is not feasible, we must at least consider how other behavioral and environmental variables alter these biological pathways underlying obesity risk."
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