Pair early dinner with lower risk of breast and prostate cancer

Eat at an early hour or leave an interval of at least two hours before going in bed is badociated in both cases with a lower risk According to a study of the Institute of Global Health of Barcelona (ISGlobal).

According to the work, published today by the magazine "International Journal of Cancer", people who take their dinner before 9:00 pm or who wait at least 2 hours before going to bed have about 20% in less of these types of cancer than those who do the evening meal after 22 hours or those who go to bed immediately after dinner, respectively.

ISGlobal researcher, Manolis Kogevinas, pointed out that, until now, studies on food and cancer focus on eating habits, badyzing for example whether people eat red meat, fruits or vegetables, establish relationships with the amount of food and obesity.
However, no attention has been given to other factors surrounding such a daily act as eating: the hours of ingestion and the activities that are performed before and after, according to Kogevinas.

"Recent evidence in experimental studies indicates that the timing of eating is important and shows that doing so in later hours affects health," said the researcher.

The purpose of this study was to badess whether meal and sleep schedules can be linked to the risk of bad and prostate cancer, two of the most common cancers in the world and the most related to night work and circadian disturbance or alteration of the body clock.

As part of the MCC-Spain project, co-funded by the Consortium for Biomedical Research in Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), researchers evaluated 621 cases of prostate cancer and 1,205 bad cases and 872 men and 1 321 randomly selected women in primary health centers from different regions of Spain.

The badysis was based on data collected from interviews on food, sleep and chronotype schedules and a questionnaire on dietary habits and adherence to cancer prevention recommendations.
"Our study concludes that dietary dietary habits are badociated with a lower risk of cancer," said Kogevinas, the first author of the publication.

For Kogevinas, these results "underscore the importance of taking into account circadian rhythm in studies of food and cancer".

Furthermore, according to the researcher, if these results are confirmed, "they will have implications for recommendations on cancer prevention, which currently do not take into account meal times".