Eating at this time reduces weight loss

A new study has proven that eating late at night may contribute to weight gain by increasing hunger and reducing the number of calories you burn, as reported by "Russia Today", citing "Business Insider".

This habit may alter the level of hunger hormones, metabolism and fat storage, according to a study published Oct. 4 in the journal Cell Metabolism.

Doctors have been warning against snacking in the middle of the night for years, because we don't have a chance to burn them before bed.

Now researchers from Harvard University have shown that this practice has an indirect effect on the body the next day, as it was found that people who ate their last meal at 10 pm burned fewer calories the next day, and had higher levels of hunger hormones than those who ate dinner in the next day. It's 6 pm.

They also had lower levels of chemicals in the body that make them feel full and satisfied after meals, and were more likely to be overweight.

Researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School and the University of Chicago examined 16 overweight or obese adults, aged 20 to 60, as they followed two six-day meal plans - one with breakfast at 10 a.m. and lunch at 10 a.m. 2 p.m., dinner at 6 p.m., and the other with scheduled meals four hours after the first meal plan.

While the meals were identical.

The researchers wanted to test whether meal timing made a difference in appetite and metabolism if other factors such as calories and ingredients matched.

Participants were asked to rate how hungry they were during the experiments, and the researchers measured how many calories they burned and how their hormone levels changed.

They found that participants were twice as likely to be hungry during a later meal plan, and had lower levels of leptin, a hormone that signals satiety after eating, according to the data.

Also, people who ate late burned about 60 fewer calories each day, compared to those who ate earlier in the day.

The results also revealed that eating later in the day appears to increase cellular processes for storing fat, and slow down processes associated with burning fat.

The researchers wrote that the findings suggest that eating late may be associated with changes in cells that promote an increase in adipose tissue, although more research is needed to confirm this.

The findings could help explain why previous evidence links late-night eating to an increased risk of obesity, according to the researchers.

"In this study, we asked: Does the time we eat matter when everything else remains the same?" said Nina Vogovich, lead author of the study paper and a researcher at Brigham and Women's Hospital, in a press release. A big difference in hunger levels, the way we burn calories after eating, and the way we store fat."

However, the study was small, so the results should be replicated with a larger group and a larger population, including more women, who made up less than half of the participants in the latest study.

The researchers also note that many of these factors can make a difference in a real-world scenario while other lifestyle factors such as total calories, sleep times, exposure to light, and the amount of exercise participants are controlled for.

For example, eating late at night may be related to how much sleep a person gets, and sleep deprivation has been shown to increase hunger and calorie consumption.

Some research has also shown that late eating does not necessarily lead to weight gain.

And for weight loss, the total number of calories we eat still matters, so if that's your goal, focus on eating fewer calories than you burn, regardless of meal timing.

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