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When it comes to diet, weight gain, and diabetes, it's not just what we eat, but when we eat.

Satchadana Panda, a researcher at the SAC Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California.

Panda and his team had mice engage in what's called time-restricted feeding.

That is, the mice consumed all their daily calories in an 8-12-hour window.

And they wound up with markers for health that were better than those of mice free to eat whenever they wanted.

For example, time-restricted feeding reduced whole-body fat, inflammation, and insulin

resistance, and improved the mice's glucose tolerance.

We're surprised to find that the benefits of time restriction persist, even if the mice

take the weekends up.

So binging on Saturday and Sunday did not wipe out the positive effects.

The study is in the journal Cell Metabolism.

What is very exciting about this is that it's much easier to adopt than most of the lifestyle

modifications that people are recommended in doctors' offices every day.

Gastroenterologist Amir Zarinpar, one of the studies authors.

So with this type of therapy, you don't really have to calorie count.

What really this works on is your own biology and letting your body use its own evolutionary developed metabolic pathways to shuttle energy

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