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.