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Let's get this out of the way: No one's recommending you sit down and eat for eight hours. But a Salk Institute study published in the journal Cell Metabolism, shows that if you condense the total time you eat each day to only eight hours -- say 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. -- you can prevent weight gain and reduce diabetes risk, without changing your total calorie consumption.
Again: if you eat exactly the calories you're currently eating, but squish the total time you eat into eight hours a day, you'll avoid packing on pounds and lower your risk of all sorts of metabolic badness including diabetes.
"Of course, the foods you eat matter," says Satchin Panda, Salk Institute researcher and the paper's senior author, "But we showed that when you eat is just as important as what."
