Holiday Excesses Upset Food Clock

If the sinful excess of holiday eating sends your system into butter slathered, brandy-soaked overload, you are not alone: people who are jet-lagged, people who work grave yard shifts and plain-old late-night snackers know just how you feel.

All these activities upset the body’s food clock, a collection  of interacting genes and molecules known technically as the food enterable oscillator, which keeps the human body on a metabolic even keel.

It may also help explain why night owls are more likely to be obese than morning larks, and the food clock is there to help our bodies make the most of our nutritional intake.

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Hindustan times- Wellness,

06/01/2013