You probably had a feeling that late night eating wasn’t the best for your waistline. It always seemed to me that eating before going to sleep meant that those calories weren’t likely
to be burned overnight. Now there’s proof. At least in the case of lab mice. This may explain why people who work graveyard shifts tend to be heavier.
The new research from Northwestern University (published in the journal Obesity) shows that mice who at the same number of calories and had the same level of activity gained significant weight if they ate those calories during hours they would normally be asleep.Obesity
“How or why a person gains weight is very complicated, but it is clearly not just calories in and calories out,” said Fred Turek, from the Northwestern’s Center for Sleep and Circadian Biology, where the research took place.
“Better timing of meals could be a critical element in slowing the ever-increasing incidence of obesity.”
Here’s a link to a BBC NEWS article on the report: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8234386.stm
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