It is often believed that eating early is good for health. A piece of news Study shows that this would significantly reduce the risk of cardiovascular diseases – coronary heart disease and cerebrovascular diseases such as cerebrovascular accidents (CVA).

Researcher of theNutritional Epidemiology Research Team – EREN (Inserm, Inrae, Sorbonne-Paris-Nord University) – and the Institute of Global Health of Barcelona used data from 103,389 adults the NutriNet-Santé cohort from 2009 to 2022 (79% women) to examine the effects of meal times on the risk of cardiovascular disease. Self-surveys provide information about what people consume and when. “This allows us to define any food intake, not just breakfast.”specifies Doctor Bernard Srour, researcher at EREN, who coordinated this study, published on Thursday, December 14 in Nature communication.

While cardiac and cerebrovascular pathologies represent the most common cause of death worldwide and half of the cases are related to diet, this work concludes that late eating, for the first and last time of the day, is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease and cardiovascular disease. Circulatory diseases are linked to cerebrovascular diseases.

Extend the duration of night fasting

More precisely, it is a delay in breakfast time According to the study, the risk of cardiovascular disease increases by 6% every hour. Example: A person who usually eats breakfast at 9 a.m. has a 6% higher risk of developing cardiovascular disease than a person who eats breakfast at 8 a.m. Delaying dinner by an hour is associated with an 8% hourly increase in stroke risk. However, there is no increased risk of coronary heart disease.

In general, eating late after 9 p.m. is associated with a 28% increased risk of developing a transient ischemic attack (TIA) or stroke. compared to dinner before 8 p.m. “Please note that this is not a one hour difference. We compared all those who eat before 9pm and those who eat after, which also includes those who eat after midnight “precise Bernard Srour.

Another result of the study: the longer we increase the duration of nighttime fasting (time between the last meal of the day and breakfast the next day), the more the cardiovascular risk decreases. But be careful, warns the researcher, “Our work suggests that this period must be coupled with an early morning meal.”.

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