#469: Chrononutrition – New Findings & Updated Views
Sigma Nutrition Radio
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The Thermic Response to Feeding
The idea that there's diurnal variation in our thermic response to feeding goes back to the early 90s. A study by Roman and colleagues showed a 44% lower Tef response at 8pm compared to 8am now again the percentages are potentially over emphasizing the actual magnitude of difference so they calculated Tef as calories per minute and in the morning in the evening at the 8pm meal that was 0.13 calories per minute, but in the morning that was0.11. And then another paper published in 2020 looked at variation in Tef response and what they reported was that the Tef response to breakfast was two and a half times greater than the Tefresponse to dinner.
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