Body clock messed up by high-fat diet

A team of researchers in America have found that eating a high-fat diet, or even including a few high-fat meals as part of a diet, could significantly influence one’s internal clock. This then leads to sleep disruption, and potentially exacerbate obesity and type 2 diabetes development.
The research team found that those mice who ate high-fat foods would change their diet and sleeping patterns, eating when they should be asleep and sleeping for much longer periods.
The body clock, also known as the circadian clock, manages the daily rhythms of the body. Having a faulty or disrupted body clock can lead to an increased risk of obesity or diabetes. The close links between metabolism and timing are only now being discovered.
The team, from the Northwestern University, found that the onset of the changes was quite rapid. The research was published in the journal Cell Metabolism.