FROM FOX NEWS: Eating breakfast earlier in the day may help add years to your life, new research suggests.
A decades-long study tracking nearly 3,000 adults over the course of about 30 years found that the timing of meals, especially breakfast, may be just as important as what is on the plate and could signal underlying health problems.
An international team, led by Dr. Hassan Dashti of Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, analyzed meal times, health conditions, genetics and mortality of the 42- to 94-year-olds using data from the University of Manchester.
The findings, published this month in the journal Communications Medicine, showed that as people age, they tend to eat breakfast and dinner later, shifting their eating midpoint — the halfway point between the first and last meal of the day — and shortening their overall eating window.
Factors like poor sleep, depression, dental problems, meal preparation difficulties, and lifestyle changes like retiring, living alone, or moving to assisted living facilities may cause breakfast and dinner times to shift later.
“For example, depression and fatigue may reduce appetite or slow down morning routines, while dental or chewing problems can make eating uncomfortable, leading people to postpone breakfast,” Dashti told Everyday Health.
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