A recent study, which took place at the Barcelona Institute for Global Health in Spain, found that eating dinner at a late hour, as well as going to sleep soon after finishing dinner, is associated with a greater chance of developing either prostate or breast cancer. These results are based on an investigation that included 621 men with prostate cancer and a control group of 872 men without the disease, and 1,205 women with breast cancer and a control group of 1,321 women without the disease.
All the subjects answered questions that covered many lifestyle factors. They reported their typical eating habits, mealtimes, sleep patterns, tendency to be an early bird or night owl, physical activity level, and more. After analyzing the data that was generated, the researchers discovered that the timing of dinner and sleep were both important. The participants who ate dinner earlier than 9 p.m. or didn’t go to sleep until at least two hours after dining had a 20 percent lower risk of developing prostate or breast cancer compared to their peers who generally ate past 10 p.m. or went to bed shortly after finishing their meal.
So eating your dinner earlier in the day and giving your body time to wind down and be prepared for bed not only has the benefit of lowering your cancer risk, it also increases your body ability to focus on healing and regenerating itself versus digestive actions. How many of you are willing to try to eat this way?
