Eat breakfast early, and all your meals in a 10-hour window, to burn more calories and feel less hungry, researchers say
- New research suggests that eating later in the day can promote obesity – you may burn calories at a slower rate and experience body changes promoting fat growth
- Instead, eat breakfast early and, says another study, eat all your meals in a 10-hour window, to feel less hungry. Making breakfast your biggest meal helps too

Researchers have provided more evidence that eating earlier in the day might be good for you – and eating all of your meals within a 10-hour window could be healthier, too.
The takeaway from this latest wave of research on eating is to eat breakfast and try to confine your meals closer to a 10-hour window.
Why eat earlier? Participants who ate meals four hours later in the day were more hungry, burned calories at a slower rate and had body changes that promoted fat growth, according to a study from researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts in the United States.
The research was published this week in the journal Cell Metabolism.

“In this study, we asked, ‘Does the time that we eat matter when everything else is kept consistent?’,” first author Nina Vujovic, a researcher in the hospital’s division of sleep and circadian disorders, wrote on the hospital’s website.
“And we found that eating four hours later makes a significant difference for our hunger levels, the way we burn calories after we eat, and the way we store fat.”