NCT07109583

Impact of Dinner Timing on Human Behaviours and Health

Effects of Dinner Timing on Eating Behaviour, Physical Activity and Metabolic Health

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 20 (estimated)
• Sponsor: National Taiwan Normal University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 20 Years – 50 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The aim of this project is to investigate the impact of dinner timing on eating behaviors, physical activity and metabolic healthy in healthy adults

Detailed description

In the early dinner trial, participants will be required to eat dinner between 17:30 and 19:00 for a week. In the delayed dinner trial, participants will be required to eat dinner between 20:30 and 22:00 for a week. During the intervention, energy intake (3 days of weekday and 1 day of weekend), physical activity (7 days), glucose concentrations (7 days) and sleep (7 days) will be monitored continuously for both early and delayed dinner. After intervention, body composition, cognition, food preference, metabolic health and resting metabolic rate will be measured.

Conditions

• Delayed Dinner Intervention

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Early dinner	Consume dinner between 17:30 and 19:00 for a week
BEHAVIORAL	Delayed dinner	Consume dinner between 20:30 and 22:00 for a week

Timeline

• Start date: 2025-08-20
• Primary completion: 2026-07-01
• Completion: 2026-07-01
• First posted: 2025-08-07
• Last updated: 2026-01-23

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Taiwan