Fatty Diet Scrambles Body Clock - WSJ

Lovers of fatty food beware. Now comes evidence the treats you crave may disrupt your sleep. A fat-laden diet throws off the body’s internal clock for regulating slumber and wakefulness. Well, at least it does in mice, a new study says.

Circadian rhythm is considered the body’s master clock, and diet can “change the speed at which the hands of the clock are turning,” the study’s senior author, Joe Bass of Northwestern University, tells the Health Blog. Disruptions of our internal clock have been found in previous work to be related not only to changes in sleep, but also in metabolism, obesity and diabetes....