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Health / Mon, 10 Aug 2026 BBC

We're getting mealtimes wrong - here's the best time to have dinner

But why should eating the exact same food at a different time of day have such a powerful effect? When I asked this question to Frank Scheer, a professor of medicine and neuroscientist at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, he told me that it's because "we're not the same person in the morning and the evening from a biological point of view." Our internal body clock regulates almost all aspects of our physiology, he says.

But why should eating the exact same food at a different time of day have such a powerful effect? When I asked this question to Frank Scheer, a professor of medicine and neuroscientist at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, he told me that it's because "we're not the same person in the morning and the evening from a biological point of view." Our internal body clock regulates almost all aspects of our physiology, he says.

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