介绍:
Can changing your meal times make you healthier? Many people want to eat more healthily, but find it difficult to change their diet. So what happen when altered not what people ate, but when they ate? Now I know it’s January as well, a lot of you are sticking to your New Year’s resolutions I hope. A lot of people have made a pledge this year that this is the year I eat healthy, this is the year that I avoid all those chocolate bars, and all those big potatoes, this is the year I actually get clean with the eating. But maybe that isn’t what is necessary, maybe you shouldn’t necessarily change what you’re eating, although you probably should, but maybe what you should change is exactly when you’re eating. Brian, maybe you can enlighten us a little bit more.
BK: That’s a fair point, although I wonder if Lincoln isn’t talking to himself here about this. What’s happened here is the BBC partnered up with the University of Surrey, over in the UK, and they built on some other studies in the past with mice where they restricted the time windows where they ate, for example ten hours a day versus twelve or fifteen or eight hours, and the previous studies had found that with mice, if they ate in a shorter time window, for example like nine to five or whatever, then they actually were healthier and slimmer than mice that just ate whenever they felt like it. So the BBC does this with a bunch of people, and turns out that the same thing is also true. These people, quote un-quote “lost more body fat and seen bigger falls in blood sugar levels and cholesterol than the control group.” It does seem to be, from these limited studies, that not eating in a huge span of time throughout the day and limiting it to some extent might be better for you.
LW: Wu You, what do you think of this? Do you think this has any sort of merit?
WY: I really want to try practice it, but I couldn’t, because usually the time for breakfast isn’t depends on me, it depends on my work, because I need to be in the office at 8, that means I need to eat at seven. So [BK: Right, so that makes sense] in that case, it doesn’t change.
BK: But what you could do, you could eat that at seven, and then you could make sure you don’t eat after seven o’clock at night, keep it within twelve hours.
WY: But if I’m hungry…
BK:…then you should eat earlier and control yourself. [WY: …I need to eat] You don’t need to eat if you’re hungry - you want to. All of us do –
WY: But sometimes…
LW: Wait, that’s what hunger is, Brian, [BK: No, no, no, no] is you’re supposed to eat when you’re hungry.
BK: We’re – okay, if you follow that then that may not be especially healthy.
WY: I believe the research, but usually research depends on several samples, but [BK: Very true] people’s body, they really varies, because you can see some people’s bodies, they can digest quite fast. And if they are, and then the research doesn’t really fit them, so I think it varies on different people.
BK: It does vary on individuals, but it’s often valid for humans as a class of organisms. This is one study on humans, although actually the correspondent, the person who wrote this up for BBC, the journalist, actually did the study, a similar study on themselves.
WY: I believe in it, and I think it is totally scientifical research. But what I want to say is that it is a kind of dilemma: you should believe this kind of study research and do exactly what they told you to do, or you should obey your body’s feeling – which way do you want to go.
