Marta Garaulet • Jose M. Ordovás
Editors
2013
Chronobiology, de fi ned as the science that studies the circadian (around a day) rhythms of biological beings, is a relatively new science which was fi rst discovered in the eighteenth century. It came out with Linnaeus, who designed a beautiful “ fl oral clock” that represented the hours of the day depending on the time that fl owers open their petals. Among human beings, the circadian rhythms are so inherent to our lives that we do not even notice them. Perhaps this is the reason why in the medical practice the circadian variability of the hormones, metabolites, and physiological behaviors or the relevance of time in the presence or absence of different pathologies has been practically ignored in the past.
Chronobiology and Obesity
