Night owls are more likely to develop type 2 diabetes, finds study

Medical Xpress / Diabetologia / Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes ^ | Sept. 8, 2024 | Dr. Jeroen van der Velde et al

[ConservativeMind]

They suggest not eating after 6 PM and getting to sleep earlier to minimize Type 2 diabetes risk.

[ConservativeMind]

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[SunkenCiv]

[Beowulf9]

Who?

[Lizavetta]

So it’s not the night owl aspect, it’s the eating. Which everyone should know by now.

[FamiliarFace]

Anecdotal, I know, but my BIL goes to bed around 8 pm, wakes at 4 am. He’s very very overweight. Not sure if he’s been diagnosed with T2D (yet), but he has to be well on his way. He eats 3 meals a day, 2 desserts, and snacks on whatever he wants, especially sweets. I don’t think his going to bed early is very helpful. He needs to eat less.

[fidelis]

That was my first thought. I worked both second and graveyard shift for many years and eating and drinking almost constantly is sometimes the only way to stay awake and alert.

[DIRTYSECRET]

I eat at 4pm. When you don’t work you don’t eat as much.

[whitney69]

“The analysis involved participants with a mean age of 56 years and mean BMI of 30 kg/m2.”

Who paid for this one? The scientists (?) took a group of obese people, starts at over 25 BMI and confirmed at 29 BMI, took them with a moderate age of 52, outside of prime body capacity for either sex and when the body is well on it’s way to cutting exercise, and detemined that those they “picked” were a prime suspect for diabetes.

According to the United Sttes Preventative Task Force type 2 diabetes can develop at any age, but it’s more common in people over 40. It’s caused by insulin resistance and is more common in people who are obese.

I guess failure was no option as they set up the test subjects to go right where they wanted it to go. Then produced the results they set up to be determined and adding an additional factor that wasn’t one. Must have been a grant. That’s like putting all the bulls over 2000 pounds into a corral and saying they own nothing but ton weight bulls.

wy69

[whitney69]

“The analysis involved participants with a mean age of 56 years and mean BMI of 30 kg/m2.”

Who paid for this one? The scientists (?) took a group of obese people, starts at over 25 BMI and confirmed at 29 BMI, took them with a moderate age of 52, outside of prime body capacity for either sex and when the body is well on it’s way to cutting exercise, and detemined that those they “picked” were a prime suspect for diabetes.

According to the United Sttes Preventative Task Force type 2 diabetes can develop at any age, but it’s more common in people over 40. It’s caused by insulin resistance and is more common in people who are obese.

I guess failure was no option as they set up the test subjects to go right where they wanted it to go. Then produced the results they set up to be determined and adding an additional factor that wasn’t one. Must have been a grant. That’s like putting all the bulls over 2000 pounds into a corral and saying they own nothing but ton weight bulls.

wy69

[higgmeister]

Night owls are more likely to develop type 2 diabetes, finds study

How do they know it's not people with type 2 diabetes that gradually become night owls?

[ConservativeMind]

Yet, people with a 30 BMI who did not get to sleep late didn’t have the problem as much.

So something useful is now known.

[waterhill]

I do rotating graveyard. If I don’t get coffee and food, I’m worthless.

[ConservativeMind]

Because these people already had the late to bed habit, but none had Type 2 diabetes.

It’s in the text.

[dfwgator]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rO3g_VpaWD4

[50sDad]

My assumption is that my taxes funded this, right?

[ConservativeMind]

Nope.

[higgmeister]

Of course I knew that.   I retired after forty years in telecommunications.   In that field, all the real work gets done when the subscribers are in bed.   The last ten plus years I was an internationally focused program management consultant up at all hours of the night to coordinate with cities in Europe and Asia.   So after forty years my circadian rhythm was not only out of adjustment, it was obliterated.   But the truth is, I came to love the peace of silence at night.

[ABStrauss]

How much will the idiots spend on this?

[BitWielder1]

Being forced to get up in the morning is the real problem.