Show 1094: Does It Matter When You Eat?
The People's Pharmacy
Joe and Terry Graedon
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 14 September 2017
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
For decades, epidemiologists have noted that people who eat breakfast seem to weigh less and live longer. But it hasn’t been clear if eating breakfast helps people stay healthy, or if healthy people tend to eat breakfast. How much does that matter when people in the US appear to have switched from eating three meals every day to eating or snacking multiple times a day? Does when you eat affect your health?
When You Eat and How That Affects Your Health:
Our guest, Dr. Marie-Pierre St-Onge, studies the effects of meal timing on our health. She has found that sleep disruption is also linked to dietary disturbances. Our internal clocks appear to respond to food intake in ways we might not intend.
Changes in when you eat may affect how your hormones behave. For example, eating late in the evening tends to increase insulin resistance so that you don’t utilize the energy as efficiently. What you eat matters as well. Apparently, consuming a lot of sugar could put you at risk of developing a fatty liver.
Is Fasting Helpful?
Some studies have compared alternate day fasting to everyday calorie restriction as weight control strategies. They appear to lead to very similar weight loss. And weight does matter: losing as little as 5% of body weight can improve glucose tolerance, reduce inflammation and tune up the lipid profile.
Learn how to create a healthful cycle with adequate sleep, regular exercise and a smart diet. Find out which functional foods can be helpful, and why, if you choose to eat chocolate (yum), you should make sure it is high-quality chocolate!
This Week’s Guest:
Marie-Pierre St-Onge, PhD, FAHA, is Associate Professor of Nutritional Medicine at Columbia University Medical Center. She is on the faculty of the New York Obesity Nutrition Research Center and the Institute of Human Nutrition of the College of Physicians & Surgeons of Columbia University. Photo by © ASCO/Todd Buchanan 2016
The AHA Scientific Statement issued by a committee that Dr. St-Onge chaired was published in Circulation on January 30, 2017.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Joe Graydon. |
| 0:02.2 | I'm Terry Graydon. |
| 0:03.2 | Welcome to this podcast of the People's Pharmacy, where we bring you the stories behind |
| 0:08.8 | the health headlines. |
| 0:10.3 | This podcast is brought to you by Redix Industries, makers of utterly smooth body cream, 800-345-7339 |
| 0:19.2 | on the web at utter cream.com. |
| 0:29.9 | Do you skip breakfast? |
| 0:32.7 | What about lunch? |
| 0:34.3 | Is skipping meals a good strategy for losing weight? |
| 0:39.9 | What about fasting? This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Graydon. |
| 0:49.8 | We all recognize that what we eat matters for our health, including our heart health, as well as our weight. |
| 0:56.4 | But does it make any difference when we eat? What about snacks? Does snacking between meals or at night have an impact on our weight? |
| 1:04.4 | Dr. Marie-Pierre Saint-Age has studied how skimping on sleep affects what we choose to eat while we're awake. |
| 1:11.6 | What do you do when you're under stress? |
| 1:14.1 | Many people turn to familiar comfort foods to get them through a crisis. |
| 1:18.9 | Coming up on the People's Pharmacy, learn how meal timing affects our health. |
| 1:25.2 | First, this news. |
| 1:30.0 | In the People's pharmacy health headlines, |
| 1:33.7 | hormone replacement therapy does not appear to increase the risk of death from either heart disease or cancer. |
| 1:39.8 | That's what researchers concluded by analyzing data from the long-running women's health initiative study. |
| 1:45.9 | In this double-blind placebo-controlled trial, more than 27,000 women were randomized to receive estrogen plus progestin, estrogen alone, or placebo. |
| 1:57.1 | After several years of treatment, researchers reported an increased incidence of breast cancer among |
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