ABSTRACT
Dietary interventions have traditionally focused on the quality and quantity of dietary intake. In the past 10 years, research has shown that the timing of dietary intake also significantly affects weight and health. This is regulated through the circadian system. Components of temporal dietary intake include duration, phase, variability, and frequency. Dietary interventions that optimize these factors, with or without changes to the quality or quantity of dietary intake, lead to moderate weight loss and improve various aspects of health, especially cardiometabolic risk factors. This chapter will discuss temporal dietary patterns and interventions, their efficacy, safety, and feasibility, and how they can be applied.
