Research results that 'eating late does not lead to childhood obesity'
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Previous studies have said that eating rice late will make you fat, but a survey of 1620 children in the United Kingdom found that eating supper after 20:00 could lead to obesity. There was a result showing that there was no such thing. The paper has been published in the British Society of Nutrition.
The timing of the evening meal: how is this associated with weight status in UK children? | British Journal of Nutrition | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/british-journal-of-nutrition/article/timing-of-the-evening-meal-how-is-this-associated-with-weight-status-in- uk-children / DDC3BC8A7C7FCFF919AA7FCA1C58BC76
No link between eating dinner after 8pm, obesity in children --ScienceDaily
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/05/160517083203.htm
It has been said that late meals increase the potential risk of obesity, as meal timing has a profound effect on circadian rhythms (body clock) and interferes with metabolic processes in the body. On the other hand, due to insufficient numbers of studies on children, King's College London conducted a 2016 study investigating the relationship between child dinner timing and child obesity. ..
The study will investigate the dietary habits of 1620 children, including 768 children aged 4 to 10 and 852 children aged 11 to 18, with child data from 2008 to 2012. The British National Dietary Nutrition Survey (NDNS) program gathered in between is used. NDNS is a 4-day meal diary for children over 4 years old, answered by the person or parents, and height and weight data are also collected to calculate BMI.
As a result of the research team's analysis of these data, there was no significant difference between the group of children who eat supper daily from 20:00 to 22:00 and the group of children who eat supper from 14:00 to 20:00, by age group. Even looking at it, no evidence was found that 'a late meal causes obesity.' In addition, it seems that there was almost no statistically large change in the daily energy intake of children even if the dinner time was different. Differences were found in the group of boys aged 4 to 10 years who eat late-time dinners have a higher percentage of protein consumption, and the group of girls aged 11-18 years who eat late-time dinners consume less daily carbohydrates. However, all of them may be due to the quality of the diet and are not related to obesity.
For the first time, this study showed that there was no relationship between meal timing and childhood obesity, but it included factors such as 'presence or absence of breakfast,' 'daily exercise,' 'sleep time,' and 'meal quality.' Therefore, the research team needs analysis based on another aspect in the future, and hopes that it will be a stepping stone for research to prevent obesity in children.
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