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Obesity and weight loss: is there a right time to eat?
Marta Garaulet Aza is Doctor in Pharmacy, Nutritionist and Master in Public Health from Harvard University (USA), as well as Professor of Physiology and Physiological Basis of Nutrition at the University of Murcia, Spain. Garaulet is also award for the best professional trajectory in the field of Endocrinology and Nutrition of the European community in 2011. In 2017 she has received the "Grand Prix of the Science of l'Alimentation" by the International Academy of Gastronomy. Her teaching and research activity have been related to nutrition topics, including nutrigenetics and food timing.
The objective is to know which factors are involved in the influence of food timing on obesity and metabolic syndrome, and how late eating may affect total weight loss in the dietary treatment of obesity and also in the surgical treatment of severe obesity. We will explain that there are daily rhythms in human microbiota (diversity and abundance), that these rhythms change to an obesogenic pattern when eating late. We will also introduce the importance of the autonomous nervous system in weight loss and how circadian fractals could partly explain the difficulties in weight loss of some genetic variants. We will also discuss which is the best time for dinner and why eating late can affect glucose tolerance. With the current lecture we will know more about the impact of chronobiology on obesity, the timing of meals and metabolic syndrome.
- Speaker
- Marta Garaulet Aza
- Hosted by
- Rowett Institute
- Venue
- The Rowett Institute