Having our breakfast at 11am may the new best time for our first meal of the day.
It’s all to do with our changing lifestyles. More of us are eating dinner at 9pm or later, and so if we are going to maintain 14 hours of fasting—considered the optimum time between meals to improve our metabolism and help us lose weight—we need to have a later breakfast.
Tim Spector, professor of genetic epidemiology at King’s College London, thinks that maintaining 14 hours of fasting, which includes the time we sleep, is more important for our health than other strategies, such as the 5:2 ‘fast diet’, which advocates restricting calories for two days a week.
Most fasting diets are hard to follow with a modern lifestyle of later eating, and just following the rule of an 11am breakfast may be the simplest to adopt, he says.
People who do observe the 14 hours of overnight fasting can lose between four to 11 pounds in several months, he says.
(Source: Daily Telegraph, June 10, 2022)
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