Facts You Ought To Know About Eating Late At Night
It is common knowledge that one should not indulge in excessive eating late at night. The belief is that if you’re sleeping then you’re not using the energy and so it will end up on your hips for eternity.
I would like to pose the question of whether or not this common belief is true. I feel it could be nothing more than a myth repeated many times until it’s deemed as truth. In this article, I intend to take some of the facts into consideration.
It is true that energy not used up by your body is stored as fat, this is not a myth. If our calorie intake is greater than our calorie usage then we will see this reflected in our weight in the form of fat.
When we’re burning calories, we’re by no means only burning what we’ve most recently eaten, so it’s simply not true when people believe that we’ll gain more fat as a result of eating late at night.
It’s also true that our body is constantly burning calories, even when we’re asleep. Simple tasks like, typing, blinking, and breathing all require energy, so our body is constantly at work.
Would you believe that it is a good idea not to eat anything for up to 12 hours straight? Of course not, but that is what you would be doing if you’re not eating at night time as the next time you provide your body with any nutrition will be at breakfast.
It is obvious however to avoid sugary foods late at night, in fact it’s a good thing to avoid these at any time of the day but if eaten at night they will keep you awake for longer and when you finally do sleep your sleep will be a disturbed one.
So, while it’s obviously important to sleep well at night and we don’t want to disrupt this, the bad things about eating late at night really do have nothing to do with weight gain, unless you’re simply eating extra meals during these times.
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Posted on February 26, 2010 by Admin
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