March 15 (UPI) —<\/span> Diabetics who eat fewer processed foods at night may live longer than those who consume more of them, a study published Tuesday by the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism found.<\/p>\n In addition, eating foods high in carbohydrates earlier in the day as opposed to at night helps boost heart health in people with diabetes, the data showed.\n<\/p>\n<\/article>\n Those with Type 2 diabetes who ate processed foods, including meat, later in the day had an up to 74% higher risk for death from heart disease compared to people who consumed lower amounts of these foods and\/or did so earlier in the day, the researchers said.<\/p>\n Conversely, people with Type 2 diabetes who consumed more vegetables and dairy products later in the day lowered their risk for heart disease death by 45% compared to those who ate less of these foods, according to the researchers.\n<\/p>\n Those who ate potatoes in the morning and more whole grains in the afternoon reduced their risk for heart disease-related death by up to 50%, the data showed.<\/p>\n “We observed that eating potatoes in the morning, whole grains in the afternoon, greens and milk in the evening and less processed meat in the evening was associated with better long-term survival in people with diabetes,” study co-author Dr. Qingrao Song said in a press release.\n<\/p>\n “Nutritional guidelines and intervention strategies for diabetes should integrate the optimal consumption times for foods in the future,” said Song, a member of the faculty of science at Harbin Medical University in Harbin, China.\n<\/p>\n The findings are based on an analysis of data for more than 4,600 adults with Type 2 diabetes who responded to the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, a project led by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that monitors health trends in the United States.<\/p>\n Participants were followed for a period of roughly two years, during which time 307 of them died from heart disease, the researchers said.<\/p>\n About 30 million people in the United States have Type 2 diabetes, which is caused by the body’s inability to process sugars in food and increases a person’s risk for heart disease, according to the CDC.\n<\/p>\n Previous research has indicated that nighttime eating may lead to glucose intolerance, which can cause diabetes.<\/p>\n Based on the findings of this study, the time of day that people with Type 2 diabetes eat certain foods may be just as important to their well-being as portion size and calories, the Chinese researchers said.<\/p>\n Meal times should be in line with the biological clock, a natural, internal process that regulates the sleep-wake cycle and repeats every 24 hours, they said.\n<\/p>\n That is because overall health for people with Type 2 diabetes may be improved if certain foods are eaten at different times of the day, according to the researchers.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Eating processed foods, particularly meats, at night may increase the risk for heart disease death in people with Type 2 diabetes, according to a new study. Photo by Dreblow\/Pixabay March 15 (UPI) — Diabetics who eat fewer processed foods at night may live longer than those who consume more of them, a study published Tuesday […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1022550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[371,6199,1363,4639,1552,48,1415,3734,776,425,28],"class_list":["post-1022549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-death","tag-diabetics","tag-disease","tag-eating","tag-food","tag-heart","tag-night","tag-processed","tag-raises","tag-risk","tag-study"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1022549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n<\/div>\nEating processed foods, particularly meats, at night may increase the risk for heart disease death in people with Type 2 diabetes, according to a new study. Photo by Dreblow\/Pixabay<\/div>\n\n