Circadian timing of food intake and cardiometabolic health: review

Circadian timing of food intake and cardiometabolic health: review

Type: Field / Observational study

Registration: PMCID: PMC7276994

Status: Published

Tags: Cardiometabolic, Chrononutrition, Review

External URL: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7276994/

Summary

Summarizes evidence on eating timing (e.g., earlier vs late intake, TRE) and metabolic outcomes, including implications for shift workers.

Why It Matters For Night Shift Workers and Night Owls

Evidence here whether keeping most calories in a daytime window, with minimal overnight intake, shows sleep, alertness, recovery, and metabolic markers for night‑shift workers and night owls. The signal puts timing—rather than only calories or macros—at the center of how bodies respond to working at night. For people who work nights, that frames an everyday choice (when you eat, how you light the end of a shift, how rest is split) as part of the mechanism, not just routine.

Tags

  • Cardiometabolic
  • Chrononutrition
  • Review

Notes

Annual Review of Nutrition 2020.

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