Ciência e Tecnologia Veterinária

Standardizing Appetite through Timing of Food Intake to Minimize Metabolic Disorders: A Veterinary Revelation

Abstract

Akbar Nikkhah

This public policy article establishes circadian timing of appetite and nutrient consumption as a working science to feasibly prevent and manage obesity and diabetes. Conventionally, almost all scientific efforts have focused on managing daily quantity and quality of nutrient intake in programming public nutrition and health. However, a very significant applied science, incrementally emerging recently, is timing of appetite and eating different nutrients over the 24-h period.