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Stability of the timing of food intake at daily and monthly timescales in young adults.
Trial report in Scientific reports, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.
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21 citing papers in PubMed.
- Constant-routine protocol reveals an endogenous circadian rhythm in diet-induced thermogenesis with a peak in the biological morning.Metabolism: clinical and experimental · 2026Trial
- Effects of later dinner timing on subsequent metabolic function and nocturnal sleep in healthy young women.Journal of physiological anthropology · 2026Trial
- Reminder Strategies to Improve Meal-Logging Adherence: Protocol for a Microrandomized Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2026Article
- Development and validation of the Thoughts on Eating Scale: a domain-specific measure of belief orientations toward eating.BMC psychology · 2026Article
- The diversity and consistency of what and when people eat.Nature metabolism · 2026Article
- Associations of Temporal Eating Patterns with Nutrient Intake Variability and Diet Quality Among Japanese Female Mobile Application Users.Nutrients · 2026Article
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- The diversity and consistency of what and when people eat.Research square · 2025Article
- Circadian eating patterns track from infancy to pre- and primary school-age, but are not prospectively associated with body composition in childhood - Results of the DONALD cohort study.European journal of nutrition · 2025Article
- Temporal patterns of energy intake and physical activity and cross-sectional associations with body weight status in children and adolescents: results from the Portuguese National Food, Nutrition and Physical Activity Survey 2015-2016.The British journal of nutrition · 2024Article
- The association between diet quality and chrononutritional patterns in young adults.European journal of nutrition · 2024Article
- Sleep Variability, Eating Timing Variability, and Carotid Intima-Media Thickness in Early Adulthood.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2023Article
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- Reliability estimates for assessing meal timing derived from longitudinal repeated 24-hour dietary recalls.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2023Article
- Nightshift imposes irregular lifestyle behaviors in police academy trainees.Sleep advances : a journal of the Sleep Research Society · 2023Article
- Associations of timing of food intake with energy intake, eating behaviour traits and psychosocial factors in adults with overweight and obesity.Frontiers in nutrition · 2023Article
- Wearable Cameras Reveal Large Intra-Individual Variability in Timing of Eating among Young Adults.Nutrients · 2022Article
- How Accurately Can We Recall the Timing of Food Intake? A Comparison of Food Times from Recall-Based Survey Questions and Daily Food Records.Current developments in nutrition · 2022Article
- Clock Time of First Eating Episode and Prospective Risk of All-Cause Mortality in US Adults.The Journal of nutrition · 2022Observational
- Self-reported sleep duration and timing: A methodological review of event definitions, context, and timeframe of related questions.Sleep epidemiology · 2021Article
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Abstract
Cross-sectional observations have shown that the timing of eating may be important for health-related outcomes. Here we examined the stability of eating timing, using both clock hour and relative circadian time, across one semester (n = 14) at daily and monthly time-scales. At three time points ~ 1 month apart, circadian phase was determined during an overnight in-laboratory visit and eating was photographically recorded for one week to assess timing and composition. Day-to-day stability was measured using the Composite Phase Deviation (deviation from a perfectly regular pattern) and intraclass correlation coefficients (ICC) were used to determine individual stability across months (weekly average compared across months). Day-to-day clock timing of caloric events had poor stability within individuals (~ 3-h variation; ICC = 0.12-0.34). The timing of eating was stable across months (~ 1-h variation, ICCs ranging from 0.54-0.63), but less stable across months when measured relative to circadian timing (ICC = 0.33-0.41). Our findings suggest that though day-to-day variability in the timing of eating has poor stability, the timing of eating measured for a week is stable across months within individuals. This indicates two relevant timescales: a monthly timescale with more stability in eating timing than a daily timescale. Thus, a single day's food documentation may not represent habitual (longer timescale) patterns.
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