Yes, eating irregularly is linked to a higher risk of metabolic syndrome (high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes and obesity).

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Dear  Sundarapandian,

I agree with almost all the text in your link. I would just say that we are what we digest without skipping meals in a regular time frame.

We should eat like a wise man, never like a king, neither like a prince, they used to eat too much at time and eating like a pauper is what the text say. Paupers skip meals and do not have good quality meals.

No doubt about the statements below, which is the main objective of the text.

"A review of studies on the effect of meal patterns on health shows that eating irregularly is linked to a greater risk of high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes and obesity."

Eating more or less 'calories' is not what should matter most. Calorie counting should not be as important as the quality of food one eats, the regularity of those meals and the peak glycemic  the ingested food can produce.

Why WHEN you eat is just 'as important as what': Irregular meal patterns linked to greater risk of high blood pressure, obesity and diabetes

--Researchers looked into when people eat as opposed to what they eat

--They found irregular eating patterns can affect our internal body clock

--Added inconsistent meal times can cause high blood pressure, diabetes and obesity

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3653489/Why-ear-just-important-Irregular-meal-patterns-linked-greater-risk-high-blood-pressure-obesity-diabetes.html

I am very sceptical about the relevance of the “when to eat”. If you carefully read the linked text you should also acknowledge the “seems to be” and the “warrants further investigation”.

Traditionally, people in Mediterranean countries eat preferably and then often at lot in the evenings (if not nights) rather than at breakfast. But general and cardiovascular health in these countries is not worse than in (more) Northern countries, which rather prefer opulent breakfasts. This, off course, subjective epidemiological feeling speaks against the importance of the when. Not speaking of many physiological concerns. Our physiology is designed that we can live well with regular eating as well as with irregular eating with some times of fasting – think of history! The overall balance between energy uptake and energy burning is what matters.

Dear Dr. Hans-Joachim,

I understand your point. But I would also like to present some more links which support the importance for respecting a regularity for meals.

http://apjcn.nhri.org.tw/server/APJCN/19/3/372.pdf

https://www.csun.edu/~matthews/old_stuff_b4_20070831_v2/Fcs%20380/diana%20benitez.pdf

http://www.e-nrp.org/Synapse/Data/PDFData/0161NRP/nrp-5-455.pdf

Dear Vilemar,

thank you very much for the references.

Unfortunately, I did not find them convincing to me.  All have by far too few observations for the ever-changing lifestyle aspects and are making too  many hypotheses from correlations - and correlations are not necessarily causalities, in particular weak corrrelations.

At a glance the best study appears to be the Korean study (Min et al 2011).  My interpretation of the data: The "rare breakfast eater" were more often female and at bit younger, they tended to be a bit thinner, although overweight was no issue at all in this population (overall mean BM about 23). I could not identify real risks associated with this behaviour. It would also be interesting to know the reasons for skipping breakfast: Maybe the women had to prepare the children for school? Get up very early to catch the train?

Dear Hans-Joachim,

Great. I will look for more studies. Havard and Mayo Clinic may have some good ones. As we are not here in a competition but trying to improve our understanding of those issues, could you please also give us some studies that state different thesis?

Dear Vilemar,

I have no study at hand,  As I wrote, it is just my "subjective epidemiological feeling".  And a fundamental scepticism about theories based on weak correlations.

May I suggest reading or listening some work of John Ioannidis. Maybe look at his "Equator" presentation.

Irregular meal patterns linked to greater risk of high blood pressure, obesity, and diabetes

Researchers looked into when people eat as opposed to what they eat

They found irregular eating patterns can affect our internal body clock

Added inconsistent meal times can cause high blood pressure, diabetes, and obesity

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3653489/Why-ear-just-important-Irregular-meal-patterns-linked-greater-risk-high-blood-pressure-obesity-diabetes.html#ixzz4CPzlyB1S

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Do we need such a platform to argue on the basis of a daily mail article?

If any, there are at least dozens of very large epidemilogic studies indicating that a high BMI is relatively closely correlated with cardiovascular risk, diabetes (T2), and cancer, and then life expectancy. And there are good physiological rationales explaining these correlations suggesting causality.

Maybe eating habits in terms of timing could trigger overweight, but clearly: maybe! From all articles I have seen here, any claim that eating habits in terms of timing would cause hypertension, diabetes etc. remains speculative, but will certainly be attractive for some, e.g. the public press.

Sundar,

The only thing interesting about this so-called study is that a matter of common sense known through empirical observations for hundreds of years, if not thousands (just ask any sensible grandparent), can be published as something surprising or novel!  ;)

The following article - "The Dangers of Skipping Meals When You Have Diabetes" - also stresses some useful advice to diabetes patients.

http://www.diabeticlivingonline.com/food-to-eat/nutrition/dangers-skipping-meals-when-you-have-diabetes

The month of Ramadan is a bad time to discuss merits of scheduled meals and not skipping them - for some of us, it creates a conflict between pseudo-science and superstition.  ;)

Eating at irregular times can lead to high blood pressure, diabetes and obesity

When we eat can play an important role in protecting us from getting obese and developing conditions such as type 2 diabetes, new research claims.

According to the latest data, irregular meal patterns can lead also to an increased risk of high blood pressure.

The startling findings were made in a review of previous studies on the effect of different meal patterns.

Researchers say the limited evidence highlights the need for larger scale studies to better understand the impact of when we eat on public health - particularly with the rise in shift workers and 'social jetlag'.

In recent years more meals are skipped, consumed outside the family home, on-the-go, later in the day, and more irregularly.

Two papers published in the journal Proceedings of the Nutrition Society examine different eating habits, reviewing a number of dietary studies as well as global differences.

Eating inconsistently may affect our internal body clock - or 'circadian rhythms' - which typically follow a 24-hour cycle.

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Many metabolic processes in the body follow a circadian pattern such as appetite, digestion and the metabolism of fat, cholesterol and glucose.

 For more plz read at the following link

Regards

Aki

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/eating-irregular-times-can-lead-8248501

Yes, eating irregularly is linked to a higher risk of metabolic syndrome (high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes and obesity).

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Yes, there is a link between irregular meal patterns espacially food rich with sugar and high diabetes.