Eating your breakfast before 8am could reduce your risk of developing type 2 diabetes.
People who have their first meal after 9am are 59 percent more likely than the early bird to develop the disease.
But eating an early breakfast also means eating your dinner early too—and that should be before 7pm if you want to maintain at least a 12-hour window between meals as recommended by advocates of intermittent fasting.
Researchers from the Barcelona Institute for Global Health tracked the health of more than 100,000 people in France and discovered that it’s not just what you eat that raises your risk of diabetes, it’s when you eat.
During the seven years of the study, 963 participants developed type 2 diabetes, and most of the cases were among those who ate breakfast after 9am. People who ate a late dinner after 10pm were also more likely to become diabetic.
The ideal meal planning to reduce diabetes risk is an 8am breakfast and a 7pm dinner, the researchers conclude.
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