The power of timed eating to prevent obesity and heart disease (Roizon article)

One recent study in Cell Metabolism reveals that eating late (say, after 8 p.m.) fuels obesity — even if you don’t overeat or eat unhealthy foods. That’s because those calories get burned at a slower rate (even while you’re awake) and your adipose tissue is greedier for calories, so you store more as fat. 

Another study in the same journal found that restricting your eating to a 10-hour window makes a big difference in the size of very low-density lipoproteins (V-LDL) circulating in your blood — they become larger, which is good. When they are small, they weasel into the walls of your arteries causing heart woes. 

For folks at risk for cardiovascular disease, the 10-hour eating window also lowered their A1c and blood pressure.