10/27/2022
There's been so much buzz about eating late in the media recently that I decided to write my own article. The newly published studies that were often mistakenly cited as definitive proof of a relationship between eating at a certain time and weight gain. The research on "chrono-nutrition" is still in its infancy, so we have to be careful to make conclusions on causality here. We just don't know if this will turn out to be meaningful on a population level. Does it matter more what time you eat, or what your meal is composed of and whether you are meeting your nutrient goals? I am leaning towards the latter but will wait for more research to make statements ;)
There has been a lot of buzz around timing of meals recently, especially after two studies were published in October. One suggesting that eating late may be directly related to weight gain and another suggesting that eating late may change hunger and appetite but does not impact weight.