You might imagine that you’re healthier in the summer. The sun is shining, we get plenty of vitamin D, and the days are long.
However, recent research from the University of Copenhagen suggests that eating habits in winter may be better for our metabolic health than eating habits in summer, at least if you’re a mouse. Researchers have examined the metabolism and weight of mice exposed to both ‘winter light’ and ‘summer light’.
“We found that even in non-seasonal animals, differences in light hours between summer and winter do cause differences in energy metabolism. In this case, body weight, fat mass and liver fat content,” says Lewin Small, who carried out the research while a postdoc at Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research at the University of Copenhagen. He adds:
“We found this mostly in mice exposed to winter light hours. These mice had less body weight…
