Dr. Sarah Berry explains that eating on a consistent schedule improves health markers more than erratic meal timing. Key practices: eat slowly, avoid large dinners late in the evening, finish eating by 9 p.m., and maintain a 12-14 hour nightly fasting window.
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We now are also starting to see some data emerging to show that a consistent pattern of eating is important. Our bodies like predictability. There's some interesting research where they've had people either following an erratic eating pattern where they might have one day, two big meals, another day, exactly the same energy and calories, but spread across six meals, and then the other day, three meals and so forth. And what this evidence shows is that health outcomes improve if you're having a consist consistent pattern of eating. Just so that's slow down how fast you eat your food, try and avoid having your main meal too late in the day, try and avoid eating after 9 o', clock, try and be consistent in the pattern you're eating, and try and have a 12 or 14 hour period where you're not eating overnight.