Journal
NUTRIENTS
Volume 12, Issue 9, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/nu12092797
Keywords
skipping breakfast; core body temperature; dim light melatonin onset (DLMO); heart rate variability; clock gene
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- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science [17K17911, 20H04120]
- Danone Institute of Japan Foundation
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [20H04120, 17K17911] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Breakfast is often described as the most important meal of the day and human studies have revealed that post-prandial responses are dependent on meal timing, but little is known of the effects of meal timing per se on human circadian rhythms. We evaluated the effects of skipping breakfast for 6 days on core body temperature, dim light melatonin onset, heart rate variability, and clock gene expression in 10 healthy young men, with a repeated-measures design. Subjects were provided an isocaloric diet three times daily (3M) or two times daily (2M, i.e., breakfast skipping condition) over 6 days. Compared with the 3M condition, the diurnal rhythm of the core body temperature in the 2M condition was delayed by 42.0 +/- 16.2 min (p= 0.038). On the other hand, dim light melatonin onset, heart rate variability, and clock gene expression were not affected in the 2M condition. Skipping breakfast for 6 days caused a phase delay in the core body temperature in healthy young men, even though the sleep-wake cycle remained unchanged. Chronic effects of skipping breakfast on circadian rhythms remain to be studied.
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