Professor Sarah Berry

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The Food Chain · When should I eat my evening meal? · 22 Jul 2026 podcast

So many Mediterranean countries, so Spain, Portugal, France and so forth,

they tend to have their largest meal, so the most calorie dense meal actually at lunchtime.

And so yes, while they're eating later in the day, they're actually consuming less in the evening than for example, we are in the UK or people are in the US.

And there's now some good evidence from clinical trials showing actually, it's not just so much the timing, it's also the weighting, so the distribution.

So if you're kind of front loading your calories, so having

more of your calories at breakfast and lunchtime compared to having more of your calories maybe at lunch and evening time, that that's associated with less hunger, better metabolic health, fewer calorie intake.

So this is still an area of emerging evidence.

What we do know, like Emily said, is how you metabolize the food is different.

So you have bigger blood sugar responses, bigger dips.

You have differences in hormonal responses to food.

You potentially have great inflammatory responses as well after eating, etc.,

And so what we know then from large population studies is that those people who are eating later in the day are more likely to have poorer metabolic health.

So they're more likely, for example, to have higher blood pressure, potentially higher cholesterol, higher rates of type 2 diabetes and so forth.

There aren't robust clinical trials yet, you know, with these clinical endpoints, but we know there's this mechanistic link and we know populations and groups of individuals within populations who are eating later tend to have a higher risk of many of these chronic diseases.

I think that it's likely that inflammation underpins much of this, but yeah, time will tell.

Well, it's tough.

We know that shift workers are at increased risk of many metabolic diseases, so increased risk of cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, more likely to have high blood pressure and so forth.

And it's a very difficult problem to solve for, given that more and more of us are night shift workers.

And given that you often as a night shift worker are also having an erratic sleeping pattern.

And so you might do three nights on, three nights off, etc.

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