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What changes when identical meals move later?
Late isocaloric eating increases hunger, decreases energy expenditure, and modifies metabolic pathways in adults with overweight and obesity
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What it found
Later meals increased hunger, reduced energy expenditure during waking hours, and altered pathways measured in fat tissue.
Keep these limits in view
A short mechanism study does not establish long-term weight change or a universal time to stop eating. Participants maintained their weight, and the controlled laboratory setting differs from everyday life.
Understand the context
- Evidence type
- Randomized crossover laboratory trial
- Population or scope
- Adults with overweight or obesity without diabetes
- Sample or coverage
- 16 completed both conditions
- Study duration or data period
- Two short inpatient protocols; meal schedules tested on days 3–6
- Comparison
- Identical meals served earlier or delayed by 4 hours 10 minutes, with calories, sleep, light, and activity controlled.
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