Don't eat at midnight

@bhanusb (5709)
India
May 22, 2012 11:40am CST
We know that food with fat helps a person to become over weighted. But recently a study says, at midnight if a person eats food with less calories also can become fatty. Eating at night watching movies or browsing internet is the cause of gaining weight. So the researchers made caution about eating at midnight. Chief researcher Sachinananda Panda of California Institute for Biological Studies says, a study reveals that at day time humans body functions at full energy. But at night the digestion system of humans body takes rest. As a result the major portion of food taken at night can not digested. From this food 70 percent fat stored in the body and a person becomes fatty.
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11 responses
@marguicha (215746)
• Chile
20 Jun 12
My biggest meal for the day is lunch. It´s a lot bigger than the night meal which usually consisys only of a cup of coffee with milk and some bread with cheese, avocado or scrambled eggs. When I stay late, I might have another cup of coffee.
@bhanusb (5709)
• India
21 Jun 12
My night meal is only noodle soup mixed with vegetables. At night light food keeps the body sound.
@marguicha (215746)
• Chile
21 Jun 12
I´m not much of a soup person as midnight snacks go, but fortunatly I don´t eat fat food either. A cup of coffee or a small amount of bread with something on it will do.
@lady1993 (27225)
• Philippines
25 May 12
Oh, i use to eat at midnight but then i sleep early so i can't really eat at that time anymore. the latest time i eat at night is 10 pm.. is it bad too? I just get hungry at those times and i think one should really eat if one is hungry.
@bhanusb (5709)
• India
26 May 12
10 pm is not midnight. you can eat that time. it would not harm your health.
@lady1993 (27225)
• Philippines
27 May 12
So only eating at midnight is bad? Any time before or after that is okay? I wonder why...
@ryanong (9665)
• Vietnam
23 May 12
I heard that eating at midnight makes us easily get fat also. I take 3 main meals a day only and i really don't like to eat more at night time.
@bhanusb (5709)
• India
23 May 12
I have mentioned it in my discussion.
@ryanong (9665)
• Vietnam
24 May 12
ya. i know. I used to want to get fatter and i tried to eat more at nighttime...but the result is i couldn't sleep well because of being full. So that i gave up the plan to get fatter by eating at midnight...
• India
22 May 12
It is not good to eat a lot of food at night time because there may be proper digestion inside your body. So try to have something light food so that you don't feel hungry at might time.
• Bosnia And Herzegovina
22 May 12
I also heard that if you are eating at midnight ,there is 50% more chance that you will be over 100 kilos in next 2 months. How reliable is this ?
@bhanusb (5709)
• India
23 May 12
Hello wonderboy and ljepilo, it is better not to eat at midnight. Light food can be taken at night.
• Philippines
23 May 12
There's the reason it's hard for me to lose weight! I love eating during night especially in front of my pc since it's stimulates my brain. Will try to lessen my eating habits since i'm trying hard to lose some pounds. thanks for the info. :)
@bhanusb (5709)
• India
23 May 12
Try to change your eating habit.
23 May 12
Thank you for this information. I am actually new here in mylot and spend most of my time here to learn, and besides i am not busy of doing other things too. So, most of the day i just kept on sitting and at night I slept late and kept on eating. I'm really gaining weight.
@bhanusb (5709)
• India
23 May 12
Kept on sitting before your pc all day long, but not at night.
@GemmaR (8517)
23 May 12
Actually, the stories that you hear about the fact that you're not supposed to eat food late at night is mostly a myth. Although your digestion might be better early on in the evening, your body is still going to use the same amount of calories each day, and it makes no difference whether it is getting those calories from the food that you have just eaten, or whether it is getting them from fat reserves from the things that you had eaten the night before. There have been a lot of studies done about this, it would almost certainly seem that it is nothing but a myth.
@bhanusb (5709)
• India
23 May 12
Hello Gemmar, May be it is a myth. But to lead a irregular life affects our health.
• India
23 May 12
Hello friend, Yes it is true. If you something in midnight. Then it is not good for your health. If you continued this you became very fat. So don't do this. Have a nice day.
@bhanusb (5709)
• India
23 May 12
Yer sourabh you are perfectly right.
@shaqziad (655)
• Malaysia
22 May 12
this is true. we are advised to not eat heavy meals around 4 hours before sleep, which include midnight. for those working at night, it is not a problem to eat at midnight, as long as it is more than 4 hours before you actually sleep. even if you eat low fat food, it still get stored as fat in the body since you eat it when the body is not using much energy (before sleep).
@bhanusb (5709)
• India
23 May 12
Hi shaqziad, for night workers it is difficult to maintain routine. A night worker can carry food and eat in proper time.
@liguoping (179)
23 May 12
I have seen similar news report a few days ago,but i don't know the consquence is so serious.Luckily i usually don't eat anything at night,but my collgue and friends are not.I will recommand your article to them.
@bhanusb (5709)
• India
23 May 12
Yes pursue your friends and colleagues to eat early at night.
@tatsumaki (189)
• Indonesia
23 May 12
Yups i've ever eat really late at night... And when i wake up i feel stomachache and it's really uncomfortable.... You better never tried it because it's not good for health...
@bhanusb (5709)
• India
23 May 12
Now try to eat early.