"When you're eating between 8pm and 2am, you're eating as much as you're burning but you keep more muscle and lose more fat," Dr Peterson, from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, said. We were surprised because we thought people would get hungrier at night if they finished eating by 2pm,' Dr Peterson admitted. This means eating in alignment with the body's circadian clock, by eating earlier in the day, may positively influence health. They also tried four days of eating between 8am and 8pm - what many consider to be "normal". Dr Peterson says that, because the human study involved only a small number of participants, a more comprehensive study will need to take place.

Source: New Zealand Herald January 12, 2017 17:47 UTC