Food consumption only by day could protect the health of the heart of shift workers
Scientists at Southampton University of the United Kingdom and Mass General Brigham University of the United States say that earlier research has shown that night shift work can result in « serious » health risks for a cardiovascular system.
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The amounts of evidence that their study, published in Nature Communications, suggests that shift workers can avoid some health risks whether they only consume food by day.
During the two -week period, the team studied 20 healthy and young research participants. During this period, the respondents did not have access to windows or watches that would allow them to find out what effect of the circadian mismatch on their physical functions.
For the purposes of the study, participants had to remain a continuous awake for 32 hours in a poorly lit space, maintaining the identical position of the body and consuming an identical smaller amount of food every hour.
And after participating in a simulated night work, they were asked to choose whether to eat during the night, as most of the night workers do so, or only during the day.
The researchers then examined the subsequent effect of the time layout of food consumption on factors that could affect the cardiovascular risk in the participants, including the markers of the autonomic nervous system, the inhibitor of the plasminogen-1 activator (which may increase the danger of blood clots) and blood pressure.
They found that these risk factors did not affect those research participants who consumed food during the day.
– Our previous research has shown that the Circadian inconsistency – the improper compliance of the cycle of our behavior in relation to our inner body clock – increases the cardiovascular risk factors – said Professor Frank Scheer, director of medical chronbiology program at Brigham and Women’s Hospital Hospital.
– We wanted to find out what could be done to reduce this risk, and our new research indicates that this goal could be timing of food intake into the body. Our study controlled all possible factors that could affect the end result, so we can say that the effect of the time arrangement of food intake is what encourages such changes when it comes to the risk of cardiovascular disease development – said Dr. Sarah Chellappa, Associate Professor at the University of Southampton and the research leader.
