Find out the best time to eat dinner to prevent cancer

Many studies focus on what you eat, with little attention paid to when you eat. But new research has found a link between dinner time and colorectal cancer, according to medical site Web MD.

Lead author, Edena Khoshaba, of Rush Medical College (USA), said: We wanted to see if meal timing affects colorectal cancer.

Eating dinner more than 3 hours before bedtime is best to prevent colorectal cancer.

The study, conducted by scientists at Rush University Medical College, included 664 participants undergoing colonoscopy for cancer screening. 42% of these people regularly ate dinner late, meaning they ate dinner within 3 hours of going to bed, at least 4 days a week.

Results suggest that people who eat dinner late may have a higher risk of developing colorectal cancer.

Specifically, they had a 46% higher risk of developing a type of colon polyp than those who ate dinner earlier. Notably, up to 5-10% of these polyps will become cancerous over time. The risk depends on the location of the polyps in the intestine and their size.

Doctors searched for, measured, and counted polyps during colonoscopies. The results showed that people who ate dinner late were 5.5 times more likely to have three or more colon polyps than those who ate dinner early.

Notably, up to 5 - 10% of polyps will become cancerous over time.

Researchers have concluded that eating dinner within three hours of going to bed at least four times a week can increase the risk of developing colorectal cancer. This means that eating dinner more than three hours before bedtime is best for preventing colorectal cancer, according to Web MD.

Experts have long warned against late-night eating. Now there's apparently one more reason to avoid it.

Explaining why people who eat late at night are more likely to get colon polyps, researchers say that eating close to bedtime can disrupt the body's "peripheral circadian rhythm".

Part of this peripheral system is found in the digestive tract. For example, if you eat dinner late at night, your brain thinks it is nighttime, but your gut still thinks it is daytime.

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