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Intermittent fasting or 'time-restricted' eating has long been seen as one of the most effective ways to achieve weight loss.

And now one expert has suggested it all comes down to when you eat breakfast, because the goal is to achieve a fasting period of at least 14 hours.

Speaking at the Cheltenham Science Festival in the UK, Tim Spector, professor of genetic epidemiology at King's College London, suggested the best time to eat breakfast was 11am.

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That's because more people are eating dinner much later than before, around 9pm.

And even those who eat earlier, tend to continue snacking until later at night, which professor Spector explained makes it "difficult to achieve a 14-hour fasting period".

"There is a simple change people can make, by shifting their breakfast from 8am to 11am, which actually is more effective than more fashionable fasting diets like 5:2," he said.

"Fasting for 14 hours a day, using a later breakfast, but overall eating the same amount, is easier to achieve long-term. It works because the microbes in our gut have a circadian rhythm like us and need a rest period."

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It comes after Dr Rahul Jandial, world-renowned brain surgeon and neuroscientist, recently told 9Honey that there are actually a host of psychological benefits to skipping breakfast every now and then.

"The brain is a hybrid vehicle and the concept of intermittent fasting has been proven to have a psychologically clarifying effect," the said.

"What the body naturally does is when glucose runs out after 16 hours, the liver says 'the body's out of glucose', then the brain says 'I'm not happy', and then the liver will release ketones."

"If you look at the cognitive neuroscience literature, people do better with emotion, focus, alertness, when they're running on a hybrid vehicle sometimes electric sometimes gas, sometimes ketones, sometimes glucose," Dr Jandial noted.

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