Diet and sleep
Modern life involves mistimed sleeping and eating patterns that in experimental studies are associated with adverse health effects including obesity, cardiometabolic outcomes and cancer. Studies on nutrition and cancer in humans have focused on type (e.g. consumption of fruits and vegetables) and quantity of food intake, rather than on timing of eating. In this presentation I will discuss the effect of mistimed eating patterns and sleep in humans and present recent findings showing that adherence to a diurnal eating pattern is beneficial for health.
Manolis Kogevinas, MD, PhD is a senior researcher at the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal). He is currently on sabbatical at the School of Public Health, UW and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA. He worked at IARC/WHO, Lyon, at IMIM, Barcelona, and was co-Director of the Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL) in Barcelona, Spain. His research focuses on environmental, occupational and genetic factors in relation to cancer, respiratory diseases and child health. In recent years he has focused his research on the effects of circadian disruption on health. He has published more than 500 indexed scientific papers. He was President of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE) in 2016-2017.