The time you eat breakfast could be key to losing weight and staying healthy, a nutrition expert has said. Tim Spector, who is professor of genetic epidemiology at King’s College London, said because people are tending to eat later into the evening, breakfast should be delayed until after 11am.
Professor Spector, whose name became famous during the Covid pandemic as he co-created the Zoe app which traced the spread of the virus in the community, was speaking at the Cheltenham Science Festival. He told his audience in the Gloucestershire spa town: “If you have a later breakfast, that will give you some benefits.
“I think we have to rethink all the things we have been told are unhealthy, because there’s just so much new science coming out.”
