We should all try to get into the habit of eating all our meals within a twelve-hour window by fasting three hours between your evening meal and bedtime, and to fast 12 hours between that meal and breakfast.

Allowing at least three hours before bedtime can help the evening meal to digest before sleep when the digestive process slows down. Fullness can inhibit sleep and, insulin, which is released when we eat can also inhibit melatonin, our sleep hormone.

During this 12 hour eating break, a health-promoting cascade effect begins. The body begins its own natural house-cleaning. Anabolic metabolic processes (build-up) are switched off and catabolic processes (breakdown) are switched on. In addition, the liver will have used up its internal fuel stores, in the form of glycogen, and soon after this the body will start to burn its own fat.

These are by no means the only health benefits of restricting our hours of eating.