Moving the main meal earlier helps to counteract genetic risk of obesity. Spanish scientists have reached this conclusion. The results of the study were published in Obesity magazine.
The study took part in almost 1,200 excess and obese adults, which have passed diet therapy in six Spanish clinics. Researchers have paid special attention to interaction between food intake and obesity to obesity. This genetic predisposition was assessed through 97 famous genetic markers.
Participants were divided into groups, depending on whether they had eaten earlier during the day, and their progress was controlled both during the active treatment and years later.
The analysis has shown that food intake does not affect the diet of weight loss or percentage, but it is significant for the initial index of the body in the long run. Twelve years after the completion of therapy, the average growth of body weight in the later participants was 2.2% for each hour of eating.
The connection between the food intake and body mass index was especially strong in people with high genetic predisposition to obesity. For them, each hour of "Delay" was associated with more than two kilograms per square meter of body mass index (muz). Such a pattern has not been observed to people with medium or low genetic risk.
Scientists have also identified two genetic versions that can affect the body weight differently depending on the meal time. One increases the risk, the other can have a protective effect.
Translation of: Euromedia24.com
