Timing is also important. Compressing the time you eat is healthy and the evidence is becoming overwhelming. If you can eat in a smaller time window in the day, say within a 10 hour eat all your meals within 10 hours and you have 14 hours to rest your gut and your body, that's a healthier way. And I think we're going to see more of this buildup of this time restriction eating, becoming absolutely mainstream in health advice.
Tim Spector is a Professor of Genetic Epidemiology at King’s College London, director of the Twins UK study, Scientific co-founder at ZOE, and one of the world’s leading researchers. He's also the author of Food for Life: The New Science of Eating Well, his latest book focusing on nutrition and health. Tim trained originally in rheumatology and epidemiology.
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