New research suggests eating dinner later in the evening could cause weight gain, as well as increase risk for heart disease, stroke, and diabetes. This can happen because meal timing may have negative effects on your metabolism.
Below are the night eating syndrome and it’s health cost.
- Difficulty Falling/ Staying Asleep: Human circulation rhythms are set to start winding down after sunset so we can fall asleep at night. If you eat a moderate to heavy meal during this time, your metabolism revs up for several hours trying to digest this food and will prevent you from falling asleep and / or staying asleep. This is especially true if you include red meat in that meal as your body has to work harder to digest it.
- Weight Gain: If you eat at night, and have also consumed a regular amount of food during the day, the extra meal that you eat at night will almost certainly be stored as far. In fact, 1 in 4 people who are 100 lbs or more overweight engage in night eating.
- Sleep Apnea: The obesity resulting from excessive late night eating significantly contributes to a condition called Sleep Apnea. This is the cessation of breathing while sleeping where you can suddenly wake up gasping for air. The stopping of breathing is a result of excessive fat deposits around the airway structures in the neck and laxity of the soft tissues of the tongue and palate.
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