The Truth About Night-Time Snacking....
By vhienne
@vhienne (20)
Philippines
September 1, 2010 12:40pm CST
Is eating after dark your Achilles heel? A new study has found that there may well be a "wrong" time of day to eat. The results showed that eating high-fat foods during the day led to a weight gain, but eating exactly the same foods at night caused a whooping percentage to increase. The body's internal clock is not as efficient at burning calories at times when you should be sleeping, so more of them are stored as fat. This also explains why shift workers have been found to be more prone to weight gain. Seems there's the truth saying: "Breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dine like a pauper." Changing a mealtime habits could help.
5 responses
@Graceekwenx (3160)
• Philippines
4 Sep 10
Thank you for this insight... But what about our call center agents who works on night shifts?
@vhienne (20)
• Philippines
4 Sep 10
Being in the night shift is still the same when you look at it same way around. The difference is just you're working in the night and sleeping during the day. You had to have a healthy lifestyle, eating the right kind of foods, get enough sleep, drink lots of fluid, exercise and prevent from having many vices. In short, keep yourself healthy in ways you're able to balance your life with work and play.
@EdnaReyes (2622)
• Philippines
3 Sep 10
You're right, my health worker advised me not to have snacks after nine o'clock pm cause our liver and other internal organs start resting past nine. So if you want to live healthy,we must give our body the rest they deserved!
@grobanite (323)
• United States
2 Sep 10
That's weird since doctors have said many times that it doesn't matter WHEN you eat, it's just WHAT you eat. Because your body will burn more calories during the day (when you are active) than at night, so you may feel like you are burning off the calories you consumed, but late night snacks stick with you through the night. However, if you ate the same snack around lunchtime, you may be more likely to exercise during the day than if you ate it at night; so you wouldn't gain the weight. Nothing to do with the time of day, more about your actions and attitude about it.
So I have my doubts about their findings. They need to focus more on the quality of snacks, rather than when it's consumed. Either way, it's in the body and the time of day doesn't change the calorie intake. So it's really just about how the person reacts to it. If they exercise more through the day because of a large snack, than it wouldn't have the same result as someone who ate a late night snack and then goes to bed.
I personally cannot get to sleep without eating something before bed. This tends to be half a sandwich or some veggies. In which case, the "night time snacking" is not sabotaging my health at all.
@parrot2010 (813)
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1 Sep 10
ooh This is interesting and makes sense. I eat whenever I am hungry but don't seem to gain weight I think it's in my genetics. I guess people should stop eating at night even if they are hungry.
