Grinding away at a job while everybody else sleeps can put your mental health at risk.
With these findings in mind, researchers are looking into whether avoiding meals at nighttime could improve the well-being of shift workers.
Over the course of two weeks, 19 participants were subjected to simulated night work in a randomized, controlled trial. Every other part of the trial was the same, including calories consumed, the duration of sleep, physical activity and lighting conditions.at night , the authors found a 26 percent increase in depression-like mood levels and a 16 percent increase in anxiety-like mood levels compared to a baseline measure. The group that only ate in the daytime reported no such mood changes.
"We found evidence that meal timing had moderate to large effects on depression-like and anxiety-like mood levels during simulated night work, and that such effects were associated with the degree of internal circadian misalignment," the authors"These findings offer a proof-of-concept demonstration of an evidence-based meal timing intervention that may prevent mood vulnerability in shift work settings,"The randomized trial was rigorously designed, albeit small in scope, but...
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