Health aNd Fitness Guide

Fasting during a long flight could help beat jet lag. The body’s primary functions are regulated by a biological circadian clock, which responds to daylight, but a study on mice published in journal Science notes that a second ‘feeding clock’, which responds to mealtime patterns, may take over in the absence of food, keeping the person awake till he finds food. So, going without food during the flight will engage the ‘feeding clock’ and it will override the circadian clock, making jet lag more manageable. It takes almost a week for an average person to adjust to the time change as the body’s biological clock can shift only a small amount every day.