8 Hour Diet
January 2, 2013 by staff
8 Hour Diet, Standing in a dark conference room at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California, Satchidananda Panda, Ph.D., is at the epicenter of a research movement that has rocked conventional weight-loss thinking to its core. Gesturing toward a big-screen display, Panda clicks over to a pair of maps.
The one on the left shows the varying degrees of darkness and light pollution in the night sky over the continental United States. The one on the right: diabetes incidence, county by county, in the U.S. population. The charts have been adjusted to control for the greater population numbers in city areas, but still, the two are mirror images of each other.
“Where there are more lights,” he says, “there is more diabetes.” Those aren’t refrigerator lights depicted on the night map, but they might as well be, given the effect on all of us. Panda goes on to explain what may be happening: “My hypothesis is that staying up and eating late may be the cause. [Early on] we didn’t know how to use fire. In the daytime, human beings would hunt something, eat something; but in the nighttime they had to protect themselves against predators. It was only about 200,000 years ago that we learned how to control fire, and only a few people could use fire to stay up past sunset. For the past 50 years or so we’ve been staying awake late into the night. That’s when we see the rise of weight problems.”
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