Eating early can lower the risk of breast and prostate cancer |

Eat at an early hour or leave an interval of at least two hours before d & # 's 39, going to bed is badociated in both cases with a 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 have their last meal before 21:00 hours or wait at least two hours before bed are about 20% less likely to have these cancers than those who do the evening meal after 22 hours or those who go to bed. to bed immediately after eating, respectively.

ISGlobal researcher, Manolis Kogevinas, pointed out that, until now, studies on food and cancer have focused on eating habits, badyzing for example whether people eat red meat, fruits or vegetables, or establish relationships with the amount of food and obesity.

However, no attention has been given to other factors surrounding such a daily act: According to Kogevinas, "recent data from experimental studies indicate that eating time is important and shows that doing it late affects the health, "he said. The researcher pointed

The objective 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 prevalent cancers in the world and more are related to night work and circadian disruption or alteration of the biological clock.

As part of the MCC-Spain project, co-funded by the Consortium for Biomedical Research Network for Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), researchers evaluated data on 621 cases of prostate cancer and 1205 bad and 872 men and 1321 women randomly selected from primary health centers in different regions of Spain.

The badysis was based on data collected in interviews on food, sleep and chronotype schedules and a questionnaire on dietary habits and compliance with cancer prevention recommendations.

"Our study concludes that Kogevinas, first author of the publication,

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

., According to the researcher, in the case of confirmation of these results, "will have implications in the recommendations on cancer prevention, which they do not take into account meal times for the moment. "

EFE