Pair early dinner with lower risk of breast and prostate cancer

BARCELONA (Spain) .- Eating at an early hour or leaving an interval of at least two hours before going to bed is associated in the two cases to one ] a lower risk of breast and prostate cancers, according to a study by Barcelona Global Health Institute (ISGlobal).

According to the work, published today by the newspaper "International Journal of Cancer", people who take their dinner before 9:00 pm or who wait at least 2 hours before bedtime have about 20 % less likely to develop these cancers than those who eat late at night at 22:00 or those who go to bed immediately after dinner, respectively.

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

However, no attention has been given to other factors According to Kogevinas

"Recent evidence in experimental studies ntales indicate that the time of eating is important and shows that doing so later affects health, "he said.

The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether meal and sleep schedules could be related to the risk of developing breast and prostate cancers, two of the most common cancers in the world and most related to night work and circadian disruption or alteration of the body clock.

As part of the project MCC-Spain, co-financed by the Consortium for Biomedical Research in Epidemiology and Public Health Network (19459004) CIBERESP ), the researchers evaluated 621 cases of Prostate cancer and 1,205 breast and 872 men and 1,321 women randomly selected in primary health centers from different regions of Spain.

The analysis was based on data collected during interviews on food schedules, sleep and chronotype and a questionnaire on eating habits and compliance with cancer prevention recommendations.

"Our study concludes that dietary habits for Kogevinas, these findings" underline the importance of taking into account the circadian rhythm in studies on diet and health, concluded Kogevinas In addition, 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." [19659014] ⊕ [19659014]