Recent studies link energy regulation to the circadian clock at the behavioral, physiological
and molecular levels, emphasizing that the timing of food intake itself may have a significant …

Studies of body weight regulation have focused almost entirely on caloric intake and energy
expenditure. However, a number of recent studies in animals linking energy regulation and …

Overweight and obesity are the result of a chronic positive energy balance, and therefore the
only effective therapies are a diet which, on the long term, provides lower calories than the …

Objective Diet‐induced thermogenesis (DIT) is lower in the evening and at night than in the
morning. This may help explain why meal timing affects body weight regulation and why shift …

(1) Background: Eating is fundamental to survival. Animals choose when to eat depending
on food availability. The timing of eating can synchronize different organs and tissues that …

Recent advances in the understanding of the molecular, genetic, neural, and physiologic
basis for the generation and organization of circadian clocks in mammals have revealed …

Growing evidence points to an association between timing of food intake and obesity in
humans, raising the question if when to eat matters as much as what and how much to eat …

Feeding, which is essential for all animals, is regulated by homeostatic mechanisms. In
addition, food consumption is temporally coordinated by the brain over the circadian (~ 24 h) …

Background The circadian clock regulates various physiological and behavioral rhythms
such as feeding and locomotor activity. Feeding at unusual times of the day (inactive phase) …

Over the past decade, a large body of literature has demonstrated that disruptions of the
endogenous circadian clock, whether environmental or genetic, lead to metabolic …