Diabetes risk can be lowered by changing one breakfast habit

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Eating breakfast early can slash the risk of type 2 diabetes, a new study has claimed.The incurable disease which affects insulin levels is associated with a number of changeable risk factors, from poor diet to low physical activity, to smoking and alcohol intake.

But new research published today by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health suggests the time we eat may also impact type 2 diabetes risk.Eating the first meal of the day after 9am increases the risk of developing type 2 diabetes by 59 per cent, compared to those who ate it before 8am, according to a study conducted by ISGlobal, supported by "la Caixa" Foundation.ISGlobal researchers teamed up with the Inserm Institute in France to follow more than 100,000 French based participants, monitoring their diets and eating patterns.The results show that we can reduce the risk of diabetes not only by changing what we eat, but also when we eat it. "Biologically, this makes sense, as skipping breakfast is known to affect glucose and lipid control, as well as insulin levels," said Anna Palomar-Cros, ISGlobal researcher and lead author."This is consistent with two meta-analyses that conclude that skipping breakfast increases the risk of type 2 diabetes."The study consisted of 103,312 adults, 79 per cent of which were women, from the French NutriNet-Santé cohort.

Subjects recorded what they ate and drank over a 24-hour period on three non-consecutive days, as well as the timing of their meals.Over an average of seven years, researchers averaged the dietary records for the first two years of follow-up and assessed the participants' health over the following years.In that time, there were 963 new cases of type 2 diabetes among the study's subjects.