Thursday, November 26, 2009

When You Eat Is As Vital As What You Eat

"An India-American researcher has said that when you eat may be as vital as what you eat.

Experiments in mice showed that the daily waxing and waning of thousands of genes in the liver - the body's metabolic clearing house - is generally controlled by intake of food and not by the body's circadian clock as conservative wisdom believes...

The studies by Salk researchers could clarify why shift workers are oddly prone to diabetes, high cholesterol levels and obesity."

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