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FOR THE LOVE OF FOOD: Skipping breakfast messes up your clock, running is good for your back, and different bread types impact different people differently
by Darya Rose | Jun 9, 2017
Welcome to Friday’s For The Love of Food, Summer Tomato’s weekly link roundup.
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This week skipping breakfast messes up your clock, running is good for your back, and different bread types impact different people differently.
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Links of the week
- Do We Dare To Eat Lectins? – A new book has demonized a molecule found in pretty much all the foods that are healthy. The amazing Dr. David Katz eviscerates the argument in this brilliant and amusing analysis. (HuffPost)
- Eat Less Meat: A Small Change with a Big Impact – There’s been a lot of talk about climate change recently. It’s important to remember that what you eat matters as much as how you get around town in terms of environmental impact. (Civil Eats)
- Delayed meal times reset body clocks – Research is starting to show how your eating schedule impacts your metabolism and blood glucose regulation. If you’ve been skipping breakfast, you may want to reconsider. (ScienceDaily)
- Timing meals later at night can cause weight gain and impair fat metabolism – This study, which should be taken with a grain of salt since it is still not peer reviewed, links meal timing even more directly with body weight and metabolism. (ScienceDaily)
- Why Running May Be Good for Your Back – Interesting and a bit surprising. (NY Times)
- Scientists Pit Sourdough Against White Bread—With Surprising Results – As scientists battle over what all this means, it’s up to you to figure out what works for you. (The Atlantic)
- How New York Is Turning Food Waste Into Compost and Gas – I was a bit shocked when I got to New York to discover they don’t compost their organic waste. Awesome to hear they are working to change that–sounds like a big project. (NY Times)
- Waist-to-height ratio more accurate than BMI in identifying obesity, new study shows – A simple measurement may be better at predicting obesity than BMI. That would be welcome. (ScienceDaily)
- Night owls, rejoice: A late workout shouldn’t hinder your sleep. It could even help. – It’s reassuring to know that rumors about evening workouts disrupting sleep aren’t based in science. (Washington Post)
- crispy spiced lamb and lentils – Sounds like a delicious combination. (smitten kitchen)
What inspired you this week?
Thanks for the lectins piece! Just this week, I read about the danger of lectins for the first time, and my jaw dropped when they listed all the foods we should avoid eating as a result.
Regarding the Delayed Meal time study (and/or reconsidering skipping breakfast), doesn’t that study just show that irregular intervals can be disruptive? A regular schedule, which may include not eating breakfast would not fall into this category, no?
Yep, it appears as though consistency is more important than timing. If you look at the body of literature as whole, late eating still appears consistently more unfavorable to circadian rhythms and metabolism. That said, bodies are super resilient and I’m sure you can find a healthy balance in any range.
On the article about “delayed meals,” Is “later/delayed” judged by some great grand clock? I.e., ideal waking time is generally around 8 am and so generally an “on time” meal would be 8:30 am and later meal would be 1:00 am even if Joe woke up at 5? An 8:30 meal for him would still be “on time”?…… Similarly, for the study on the “later at night meal times” what determines “late at night”? One’s bedtime? The sun, so a more general clock that is a general guideline for everyone?
Darya I love your “For the Love of Food” pages! They make for a perfect break at work and I always find something interesting. I also think it’s great that you also include your opinion on the articles, reminding us not to get too bogged down in the nitty gritty! Plus, science just seems to be proving and re-proving everything from your book 🙂
I’ve literally felt all of these things intuitively! My clock always feels messed up when I skip breakfast… My back always feels more aligned when I run more often or am in good shape… And also everybody has different body types with different types of foods… This is crazy how I stumbled across this page after I have been intuitively knowing these things that past few days.
Skipping meals, particularly breakfast, is totally wrong. Occasionally, the body gets used up when we sleep which in turns utilize the meal we consume during dinner.
Consistency is key. So, having a quick breakfast, say, 2 hours after you wake is good to start your day.