New small American scientific research shows that the timing of food plays a role in a person’s mental state.
The food during the day benefits mental health more, while night can increase the depression and anxiety, concluded a new small American scientific study, which shows that the timing of eating plays some role in a person’s mental state.
The researchers, led by Dr. Frank Scheer, director of the Medical Chronobiology Program of the Sleep Disorders Division at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, who made the relevant publication in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), found that those of the 19 participants (12 men and seven women) ate, except during the day, and late at night, they had 26% higher levels of depressed mood and 16% higher levels of anxiety.
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Shir pointed out that the study concerns, among others, those who often work in night shifts so they eat then, those who make long transatlantic trips and those who have insomnia as a result of which they put it in their food. “Our study brings a new ‘player’ to the table: when one eats matters for our mental mood,” he emphasized.
Night workers (medical, industrial workers, security services and other vital services) constitute up to 20% of the workforce in modern societies. Night work tends to disrupt the central biological (circadian) clock in the brain, increasing the likelihood of depression and anxiety, among other potential health effects.
Dr Sara Chelapa of the German University of Cologne stated that “Our study adds to a growing body of findings showing that strategies to improve sleep and circadian rhythms can improve mental health. However, future studies will be needed to confirm that changes in eating times can help people with depression and anxiety disorders.”
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