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<\/div>\nBy\u00a0Nathan Gray+<\/a><\/p>\n 10-Feb-2014<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Related tags:\u00a0Meal timings<\/a>,\u00a0Metabolism<\/a><\/p>\n Related topics:\u00a0Science & Nutrition<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Alterations to meal times may have a significant effect on the levels of triglycerides in the liver, according to new research that links such effects to a range of metabolic conditions.<\/p>\n The study, published in\u00a0Cell Metabolism<\/i>, investigated the role of circadian clocks and meal timings in lipid homeostasis, by performing lipidomic analysis of liver tissues from wild-type and clock-disrupted mice either fed ad libitum or night fed.<\/p>\n Led by Yaarit Adamovich and colleagues at the Weizmann Institute’s Biological Chemistry Department, the team measured the levels of hundreds of different lipids present in the mouse liver – finding that levels of triglycerides (TAG) in the liver were reduced by 50% in mice that were fed during the night-time only.<\/p>\n “The striking outcome of restricted nighttime feeding — lowering liver TAG levels in the very short time period of 10 days in the mice — is of clinical importance,\u201d<\/i>explained Asher.\u00a0\u201cHyperlipidemia and hypertriglyceridemia are common diseases characterized by abnormally elevated levels of lipids in blood and liver cells, which lead to fatty liver and other metabolic diseases.”<\/i><\/p>\n \u201cYet no currently available drugs have been shown to change lipid accumulation as efficiently and drastically as simply adjusting meal time — not to mention the possible side effects that may be associated with such drugs.”<\/i><\/p>\n Of course, mice are nocturnal animals, so in order to construe these results for humans, the timetable would need to be reversed, the team added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An interesting new dimension in research that would readily emerge from data… http:\/\/www.foodnavigator.com\/Science-Nutrition\/Meal-times-may-have-significant-impact-on-liver-fats-and-metabolism-Mouse-data\/ Meal times may have significant impact on liver fats and metabolism: Mouse data Post a comment By\u00a0Nathan Gray+ 10-Feb-2014 Related tags:\u00a0Meal timings,\u00a0Metabolism Related topics:\u00a0Science & Nutrition Alterations to meal times may have a significant effect on the levels of triglycerides in the … Continue reading Feeding time significance in fat metabolism…<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,10,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-complex-adaptive-systems","category-healthy-habits","category-nutrition","category-quantified-self"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1392,"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391\/revisions\/1392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.foodnavigator.com\/var\/plain_site\/storage\/images\/publications\/food-beverage-nutrition\/foodnavigator.com\/science-nutrition\/meal-times-may-have-significant-impact-on-liver-fats-and-metabolism-mouse-data\/8763460-1-eng-GB\/Meal-times-may-have-significant-impact-on-liver-fats-and-metabolism-Mouse-data_strict_xxl.jpg\" "\\"\\"")
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