When May Be as Important as What What you eat, how much you exercise, and how much you sleep are important, but in the past few years, neuroscientists and chronobiologists (people who study biological clocks) have come to understand that when you eat, when you exercise, and when you sleep may be just as important. This is particularly true of older adults. The twelfth-century philosopher and physician Moses Maimonides understood the importance of when to eat, as well as how much. His advice for living a healthy life was to “eat like a king in the morning, a prince at noon, and a peasant at
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