Timing of High-Fat Diets Affects Weight
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A mouse study found that the timing of high-fat diets affects weight gain, sparking discussion on the implications for human health and the complexity of dietary research.
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Original paper: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/oby.70030
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3 months ago
"...time-restricted access to high-fat diets promotes vastly different effects on feeding behavior, mainly food preferences and meal patterns, that parallel behaviors observed in humans dysregulated sleep-wake cycles (eg, night shift workers), a population that is at increased risk of developing obesity...”
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