Namhyun Kim, a member of the Hawkins Perinatal Sleep and Health Behavior Lab, was recently recognized by the journal Nutrients as a candidate for its 2026 Best Paper Award.
Her paper, Association Between Chrononutrition Patterns and Multidimensional Sleep Health, co-authored with Rachel Kolko Conlon, Samaneh Farsijani, and Marquis Samuel Hawkins, examines associations between meal timing patterns and multiple dimensions of sleep health.
This paper demonstrates that when people eat—specifically delaying the first meal or eating heavily late at night—is directly linked to poorer sleep timing and duration. By analyzing health and diet data from over 5,000 U.S. adults, she found that every hour delayed before eating breakfast increased the odds of poor sleep duration by 21%, and those who ate most of their calories late in the day had nearly double the risk of irregular sleep timing.
Nutrients is a peer-reviewed, international nutrition journal, and its annual Best Paper Award recognizes “publications of high quality, scientific significance, and extensive influence.” Of the thousands of articles published each year, a select number of papers are nominated, and three win the award. Congratulations to Namhyun Kim on this prestigious nomination!
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