Be careful! Eating time disorders may increase the risk of heart disease

The heart is one of the most important organs of the human body and belongs to the center of the cardiovascular system and circulatory system.
years, heart health has been seriously threatened by changes in living conditions and eating habits.
statistics, about 17.5 million people die of heart disease each year, accounting for 30% of all deaths.
, China has the largest number of sudden cardiac deaths in the world, with nearly three-quarters of people with cardiovascular problems.
Despite studies showing that eating nutrients from healthy foods can be effective in preventing heart disease, a recent study published at the American Heart Association's 2020 Virtual Meeting suggests that eating time also plays an important role in maintaining heart health.
The team, led by Nour Makarem, an associate researcher at Columbia University's Irvine Medical Center, looked at changes in mealtimes from weekday to weekend and found that the daily regularity of food intake was associated with important heart health risk factors, including waist circumference, body fat, blood pressure and blood sugar.
at a virtual meeting of the American Heart Association (AHA) held last year, the team has suggested that women who eat more calories at night tend to be at higher risk of heart disease, high blood pressure, excess body mass index (BMI) and worse long-term blood sugar control.
, the new study further suggests that not only the timing of eating, but also the regularity of the diet are important factors in the risk of heart disease.
from the information currently available, the study involved 116 women of different races and ethnicities, aged between 20 and 64, from the AHA's Go Red for Women strategic focus network.
a week, the participants used electronic food diaries to keep track of their diet and duration, and repeated the process a year later.
researchers focused on the participants' first and last eating times of the day, the length of night fasts, and the percentage of calories burned during the day between 5 p.m. and 8 p.m.
In terms of daily changes in dietary patterns, for every 10 percent increase in calorie consumption after 5 p.m., the systolic blood pressure increased by nearly 3 percentage points, diastolic pressure increased by more than two percentage points, and HbA1c, an important blood glucose measurement for diabetes, changed significantly.
, the variability of calorie intake after 8 p.m. each night was associated with a more than half-inch increase in participants' waist circumference and a more than half increase in BMI.
when looking at differences in eating between workdays and weekends, the researchers found that increased late-night eating time and duration were associated with increased systolic pressure, espressopressurization, and an increase in BMI after one year.
, that doesn't mean people's weekend feeding times are getting worse.
researchers believe that the body tends to synchronize with the environment and perform functions at the best time, with people following a "social clock" on weekdays and a "natural biological clock" on weekends, but each organ also has its own "clock" and is regulated by food intake.
although the study, presented at the AHA 2020 virtual conference, was small and limited to women, the paper's insights into the importance of dietary time are worth pondering.
regular diet and sleep are essential for health.
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