According to a 2013 study carried out by the universities of Harvard and Murcia and published in the International Journal of Obesity, eating out of hours affects our biological clock and favors obesity.
As for breakfast, according to research from Tel Aviv University, if you are looking to lose weight and lose weight, the ideal thing to do is to do it before 09:30, because it is the time when we metabolize the best.
In addition to this, it should be noted that it is not advisable to eat immediately after getting out of bed, says nutrition expert Constance Brown-Riggs to LiveScience magazine.
The specialist also indicates that the ideal is to allow at least an hour to pass from the time we wake up to breakfast, so if you get up at 07:00, at 08:00 is a good time to have the first meal of the day. day.
To stay with good energy until lunch time, the suggestion is to eat something in the middle of the morning, for example, at 10:30 if you had breakfast at 08:00, which can be a piece of fruit, a yogurt, a few nuts.
Brown-Riggs points out that it is important to be clear that snacks should be small, avoiding going over the calorie limits or eating more than they should.
The person must choose the time that suits him best for his lunch. Ideally, according to a Business Insider post, it is between 12:30 and 1:30 p.m., but the most important thing is that it is before 3:00 p.m., because doing it later makes it difficult to lose weight, since In the morning we have a great capacity to metabolize sugars, because insulin works at high levels of performance, unlike at night.
In the middle of the afternoon you can have another small snack so as not to arrive too hungry for the snack. "If you go to dinner hungry, the tendency is to overeat," says Brown-Riggs. The suggestion is to have this meal at 17:30.
As for snack time, the recommendation is that it be at least three hours before going to bed, since night is the time of day with the least activity, insulin goes down and melatonin goes up, so there is a increased glucose intolerance. Therefore, it is also suggested to avoid eating copiously.
