Re: Meal frequency and health

[Guest guest]

Hi Al:

Do we know approximately when the results of the study mentioned

below will be made known? My understanding from many months ago was

that it would be very soon now.

Rodney.

--- In , Al Pater <old542000@y...>

wrote:

> Hi All,

>

> Studies are required to be performed of the effects that meal

frequency have on our

> health, says Mattson ............................

............... One dietary

> approach with a rationale similar to that of the meal-skipping diet

(that has proven

> beneficial for rats and mice) has been proposed, namely,

consumption of most or all

> of one's food during a 2–4 h time window every day.26 Its potential

health benefits

> in people are currently being tested in a controlled study being

undertaken by

> investigators at the National Institute on Aging and the US

Department of

> Agriculture. The control group will consume three meals per day and

the experimental

> group will consume their entire daily food allocation within a 4 h

period in the

> evening; all will be fed at bodyweight maintenance values.

Participants will be

> maintained on these diets for 2 months, followed by a 2 month off-

diet period, and

> then another 2-month crossover on-diet period.

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[Guest guest]

The study mentioned was done in our lab at the USDA. I was not

involved with that particular study but the subject participation part

has been completed. However the folks involved are at the early stages

of sample analysis, so I wouldn't expect a research article until

perhaps the end of the year.

GPA

> > Hi All,

> >

> > Studies are required to be performed of the effects that meal

> frequency have on our

> > health, says Mattson ............................

> .............. One dietary

> > approach with a rationale similar to that of the meal-skipping diet

> (that has proven

> > beneficial for rats and mice) has been proposed, namely,

> consumption of most or all

> > of one's food during a 2–4 h time window every day.26 Its potential

> health benefits

> > in people are currently being tested in a controlled study being

> undertaken by

> > investigators at the National Institute on Aging and the US

> Department of

> > Agriculture. The control group will consume three meals per day and

> the experimental

> > group will consume their entire daily food allocation within a 4 h

> period in the

> > evening; all will be fed at bodyweight maintenance values.

> Participants will be

> > maintained on these diets for 2 months, followed by a 2 month off-

> diet period, and

> > then another 2-month crossover on-diet period.

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