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By Randy Dotinga
HealthDay Reporter
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Friday, July 11, 2003
Friday, July 11 (HealthDayNews) -- It's a prime piece of
conventional wisdom: Eat right before you go to bed and
you'll get fat.
But new research suggests that late eaters are no more
likely to be overweight than anyone else. It's what you
consume the rest of the day -- especially in the morning
-- that counts.
Americans who regularly skip breakfast are 4.5 times more
likely to be fat, researchers found. But, in good news
for the nibblers among us, those who eat four or more
meals a day are actually on the thinner side.
"We tend to eat because of external cues instead of
internal cues -- we eat until the plate's clean. If the
plate has a lot less food on it, perhaps you'll be eating
less," says Ruth Kava, director of nutrition with the
American Council on Science and Health.
Researchers launched their study because experts don't
fully understand how eating habits -- such as the timing
and frequency of meals -- are tied to obesity, says study
co-author Yunsheng Ma, an assistant professor of
epidemiology at the University of Massachusetts Medical
School.
The researchers examined a national cholesterol study
that took place from 1994 to 1998. A total of 499 people
reported five times a year on what they ate over 24
hours.
The findings of the study appear in the current issue of
the American Journal of Epidemiology.
Ma and his colleagues found people who ate more than
three times a day were about half as likely to be fat as
those who ate three or fewer times a day. Ma suspects the
difference may have something to do with fewer spikes in
blood sugar levels among the frequent eaters.
Insulin levels go up when blood sugar rises, contributing
to hunger and the buildup of fat, Ma says. Similar
factors may be at work among those who frequently eat
breakfast or dinner away from home, he says. The study
found they were 4.5 times more likely to be fat. . . .
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