Skip breakfast and dinner late linked to the surprising risk of bone health

Specific food behaviors have been related to surprising medical condition.

In addition to conventional risk factors, such as the lower body mass index and advanced age, jumping breakfast and late dinner are associated independently with osteoporosis, according to a new study.

Nara Medical University researchers in Japan examined the lifestyle habits of 927,130 people from a insurance claims database.

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Participants included adults of 20 years or more (55% women and 45% men) who had a health check between April 1, 2014 and February 28, 2022.

The researchers followed the patients, who had an average age of approximately 67, for approximately 2.6 years to see who developed an osteoporosis fracture in the hip, the spine, the forearm or the humerus.

What is osteoporosis?

Osteoporosis is a silent disease that occurs when bone mineral density and bone mass decrease, according to national health institutes.

Most people do not know that they have the disease until they break a bone, more commonly in the hip, column or wrist.

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Osteoporosis is a common cause of fractures in postmenopausal women and older men.

The US Preventive Services Task Group recommends that women 65 years of age or older have bone density scan at least once to detect osteoporosis.

Study findings

The study found that omitting breakfast more than three times a week and eating late dinner associated with other poor lifestyle options, such as smoking, drinking alcohol daily and not sleeping enough or exercising, suggesting that these unhealthy lifestyle habits accumulate over time.

(The authors said that the most common dietary habit in Japan is to have breakfast, lunch and dinner, define a “late dinner” such as eating less than two hours before going to bed more than three times per week).

“We demonstrate that these feeding patterns frequently co-social with other unhealthy behaviors, such as smoking, low physical activity and insufficient sleep, suggesting that integral lifestyle advice can be important for fracture prevention,” said principal author Hiroki Nakajima, MD, Ph.D., from the Nara University of Medicine, said News Digital.

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People with these unhealthy behaviors were more likely to be diagnosed with osteoporosis, but not having a routine schedule to eat were independently associated with a greater risk of osteoporotic fractures.

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The study findings were recently published in the Journal of the Endocrine Society.

“Establish routines, such as having meals at specific times, supports our well -being without requiring constant thinking or dependence on willpower.”

A key limitation is that this was an observation study, which means that it only shows that jumping breakfast or eating late dinners is associated with bone disease, but does not prove that it actually causes it.

The authors were also based on a lifestyle questionnaire that was self -informed, so more objective investigation is needed.

Healthy routines

Previous research have confirmed that eating meals at a regular schedule is good for people’s health.

Healthy eating routines include consuming all meals in a period of time less than 12 hours per day, eating more in the first part of the day and avoiding food intake near bedtime.

“There are several reasons why breakfast and dinner in time benefits our health, but a key reason for which I often highlight is that the establishment of routines, such as eating at specific times, supports our well-being without requiring constant thinking or dependence on the willpower,” said Su-Nui Escobar, a dietitian recorded in Miami Digital. (She was not part of the study).

“As a busy mother, I often trust the breakfasts that I can prepare in advance or those that I don’t have to cook,” he said.

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Some of Escobar’s easy breakfast ideas include the following.

• Greek yogurt, frozen or fresh fruit, and granola low sugar
• Oats during the night
• Egg Muffins (consider preparing in advance and freezing them)
• High protein beaters (consider natural sources of protein, such as Greek yogurt or cottage cheese

She also recommends the following easy dinner ideas.

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