Figure 5 Chrononutrition in the liver Figure 5 | Chrononutrition in the liver. a | The study of chrononutrition necessitates characterizing the nutritional candidates that can modify circadian clocks, determining appropriate meal timing to maintain peripheral clock function and identifying the best times to consume functional foods, such as dietary fibres that slow glucose absorption, to yield optimal modulation of physiological function. b | Leading a scheduled lifestyle might prevent and/or improve obesity or cancer. Tahara, Y. & Shibata, S. (2016) Circadian rhythms of liver physiology and disease: experimental and clinical evidence Nat. Rev. Gastroenterol. Hepatol. doi:10.1038/nrgastro.2016.8