A study suggested that people who eat breakfast earlier had a lower risk of developing diabetes. But this doesn’t mean that changing when you eat affects your risk, as MailOnline and a press release from the researchers said.
Full Fact understands that the press release does not necessarily reflect the view of the scientists investigating the NutriNet-Santé cohort.contains the statements"Eating breakfast after 9 a.m. increases the risk of developing type 2 diabetes by 59% compared to people who eat breakfast before 8 a.m" and"The results show that we can reduce the risk of diabetes not only by changing what we eat, but also when we eat it".
By using the terms “increases the risk” and “we can reduce the risk”, this clearly suggests that the time people eat can change their risk of developing diabetes.The fact that people who ate breakfast earlier in the day went on to develop type 2 diabetes less often doesn’t mean that their early breakfasts were the reason. For example, people eating breakfast later in the day might also have other differences in their lifestyle that affect their risk of diabetes.
A researcher on the study confirmed to us that results from a single epidemiological study cannot infer that eating a late breakfast causes type 2 diabetes, and that causal language shouldn’t be used to describe the findings as other studies are needed to replicate these findings. A spokesperson for ISGlobal told Full Fact that the “published paper [...] in no way suggests a causal relationship” and accepted that a sentence from its press release taken out of context “could lead to confusion” but maintained that the “overall tone” of the press release was “correct”.Featured image courtesy ofThis article has been corrected to clarify that the article was from MailOnline, not the Daily Mail.
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