The timing of eating may affect mental health

A recent study showed that timing and timing of eating or eating your daily meal may affect mental health, as this is linked to levels of depression and mood related to anxiety.
Researchers from Brigham Hospital tested the effects of eating during the day and night versus eating only during the day, and the team found that among the participants in the day and night eating group, levels of depressive-like moods increased by 26 percent and levels of anxiety-like moods by 16 percent, according to the study. For Medical Express.

Eating timing

Director of the Clinical Chronobiology Program in the Brigham Department of Sleep and Circadian Disorders, Dr. Frank A. G. L. Sher, notes that the findings of the research team and the scientists are evidence of timing of eating as a new strategy to reduce the possibility of low mood in individuals with circadian imbalance, for example, people engaged in work suffer from circadian rhythm disorders. biological.
He explained that it is necessary to conduct future studies on workers to determine whether changes in the timing of the meal can prevent an increase in their mood vulnerability and their tendency to depression and anxiety, and therefore the study confirmed that the timing of eating is important for mental health and mood.

Depression and anxiety levels

According to the study, the researchers enrolled 19 participants 12 men and 7 women, and the participants underwent a mandatory asynchronous protocol in dim light for 28 hours, so that their behavioral cycles flipped by the fourth day by 12 hours, simulating night work and causing an imbalance in the biological clock, and the participants were divided She ate meals during the day and the other at night, and the team assessed hourly levels of depression-like and anxiety-like moods.
The team found that meal timing significantly affected the mood levels of the study participants, and increased levels of depressive-like moods and levels of anxiety-like moods. In contrast, there were no changes in mood in the intervention group in the daytime meals.