During the Holiday season, sudden overloading treats and gluttony make your body's 'Food Clock' upset with the hands spinning.
A new study at the University of California, San Francisco revealed how 'Food Clock' of our body works on a molecular level. Research published this month in the journal Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences(PNAS), showed that the newly identified protein called PKCy, is crucial to new weight loss strategies. PKCy is the key for resetting the 'Food clock' when our eating habits change.
This study is the first to found a mechanism by which a major change in your schedule can affect how much you eat and how many of those extra calories go to your body.
The researchers revealed that disruptions in regular eating and sleeping cycles especially effect mice lacking PKCγ, which could provide ways into the molecular basis of obesity and diabetes.
Studies showed that eating late at night, working night shifts, and jet lag all throw the food clock off, resulting in significant health risks including diabetes, heart attack, obesity and stroke.
According to the neurologist Louis Ptacek, MD, the lead researcher, if we understand how a “desynchronized food clock” affects the body, we can prevent measures for diabetes and obesity.
