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Why Timing Matters—for Eating, Sleeping, Exercise—and Cancer Therapies

Most cancer diets focus on what you eat. The question of when you eat is rarely mentioned. But it may turn out to be critical to your health. A new book by Satchin Panda, a scientist at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California, discusses this: The Circadian Code.

Michael LernerAug 28, 2019

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