Timing of Food Intake: Identifying Contributing Factors to Design Effective Interventions.

ABSTRACT: Observations that mistimed food intake may have adverse metabolic health effects have generated interest in personalizing food timing recommendations in interventional studies and public health strategies for the purpose of disease prevention and improving overall health. Small, controlled, and short-termed intervention studies suggest that food timing may be modified as it is presumed to be primarily regulated by choice. Identifying and evaluating social and biological factors that explain variability in food timing may determine whether changes in food timing in uncontrolled, free-living environments are sustainable in the long term, and may facilitate design of successful food timing-based interventions. Based on a comprehensive literature search, we summarize 1) cultural and environmen

SUBMITTER: Dashti HS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6628856 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature