News 24 Owners "owl behavior" more prone to heart disease and diabetes

An international study involving researchers from four countries found that people who adopt owl behavior at night and in mornings are more likely to develop heart disease and type 2 diabetes.

The owl is active at night and prefers to sleep during the day, which is the behavior of some people. He then cautioned the study through a series of evidence showing that those who prefer this lifestyle have an unhealthy diet, which makes them vulnerable to disease.

British, Swedish, Swiss and Singaporean researchers, who participated in the study published yesterday by the journal Advances in Nutrition, discovered that this model affects the body's internal clock, called daily rhythm or "chronotype" , which governs many functions. Physical, for example tell you when to eat, sleep and wake up, but the behavior "Owl" disrupts the performance of this internal clock, associated with many vital processes of the body.

According to a report published by the University of Northumbria in Britain, along with the publication of the study, one of the vital processes, glucose levels, occurs in a disorder with this unusual pattern, which naturally decreases all throughout the day and reaches the lowest level at night. The owl's behavior eats a short time before bedtime, thus increasing blood sugar when it is about to sleep, which can negatively affect the metabolism because the body does not follow a biological process normal.

Those who prefer nightlife are more likely to develop type 2 diabetes, which is 2.5 times more likely to develop the disease than those who prefer the morning, the study said.

In addition to glucose levels, the study found that people who follow owl behavior tend to have an unhealthy diet consisting of consuming more alcohol, sugars and drinks containing caffeine and fast food . This explains why they suffer from chronic diseases, such as the heart.

For its part, confirms the Egyptian expert in nutrition d. Wafa Jaber, that this study is consistent with what we know about the dangers of eating late, and marveled by the fact that it does not refer to the disease of obesity.

She said d. "The evidence provided by the study on the risk of diabetes and heart disease is strong, but obesity can be added because fat burning is reduced at night, so people with behavior owl are more likely to develop obesity, "he told Asharq Al-Awsat.

This study is the first to analyze the results of studies in several countries on whether a person's sleep and waking habits can affect their health.