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Experts say that when you eat is a key diet issue
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Experts say that when you eat is a key diet issue
SATURDAY JULY 14, 2012, 12:29 PM
BY SACHI FUJIMORI
STAFF WRITER
THE RECORD
Imagine if after a healthy, high-protein breakfast every morning, you finished with a chocolate glazed doughnut or slice of cake. And this would make you lose weight.
Sounds like what happens when dieters go to heaven.
In this case it’s true, according to a Tel Aviv University study published in the March issue of the journal Steroids. While it’s just an isolated study, it raises the question: Does timing matter when it comes to eating? Is a brownie for breakfast better for you than a banana split before bedtime? Beliefs abound when it comes to the best time to eat. One says you shouldn’t eat carbohydrates late at night – unless you want it all to go to your stomach – or eat a large meal, period, before going to sleep. Meanwhile, a popular diet book, “The Body Clock Diet,” by registered dietitian Lyndel Costain, argues that you should time your eating to your body’s natural rhythms.
To get a better grasp of the multitude of conflicting studies and myths circulating in the diet world, we checked in with local experts.
Nina Rubin, the Nutrition and Wellness Program supervisor at The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, doesn’t put much stock in the dessert-for-breakfast study. “People want this magic combination,” she says. “But it’s really simple: Eat real food – whole grains, fruits and vegetables – throughout the day. And stay away from the processed stuff.”
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