{"id":1713182,"date":"2022-10-27T07:53:54","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T11:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1713182"},"modified":"2022-10-27T11:03:38","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T15:03:38","slug":"late-night-meals-especially-bad-for-weight-gain-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/late-night-meals-especially-bad-for-weight-gain-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Late-Night Meals Especially Bad for Weight Gain: Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flate-night-meals-especially-bad-for-weight-gain-study%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1713182&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Your fondness for midnight snacks has caused you to pack on the pounds over the years, and now researchers have a better understanding of why.<\/p>\n<p>While late-night eating has long been linked with an increased risk for obesity, researchers weren\u2019t sure exactly how it caused <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-weight-gain\">weight gain<\/a> until now.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen meals are delayed by four hours and everything else stays the same, you burn fewer calories, have an increased drive for food, and experience changes in fat tissue that would promote weight gain,\u201d said study author Frank Scheer. He\u2019s the director of the Medical Chronobiology Program at Brigham and Women\u2019s Hospital in Boston and a professor at Harvard Medical School.<\/p>\n<p>The solution? Eat earlier in the day, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe new data suggest, together with the literature, eating earlier in the waking day results in changes in physiology that would promote weight loss and limit weight gain,\u201d Scheer said.<\/p>\n<p>For\u00a0<a class=\"rm-stats-tracked\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S1550413122003977\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the study<\/a>, 16 people who were overweight or obese stuck to a strict early and late meal schedule for one day each in a lab. In the weeks before each experiment, folks maintained fixed sleep schedules. They also ate identical diets and stuck to the same meal times at home.<\/p>\n<p>The participants reported their hunger and appetite, provided blood samples throughout the day, and had their body temperature and calorie use measured. Researchers also collected samples of fat tissue.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to feeling hungrier, burning fewer calories, and showing changes in fat tissue, eating later also affected the hunger and appetite-regulating hormones, leptin, and ghrelin. Ghrelin is the \u201cgo\u201d hormone that tells you when to eat, and leptin is the hormone that tells you to stop. Leptin dropped by 16 percent when folks ate four hours later, the study showed.<\/p>\n<p>Due to the study\u2019s design, researchers were able to tightly control exercise, sleep and light exposure, which could affect how many calories participants burned.<\/p>\n<p>More research is needed to see if these findings hold in real life, Scheer said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the real world, when people change meal times, they may also change other behaviors such as timing or quality or time of sleep or how much they exercise, which could affect weight,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The study was published on October 4 in the journal\u00a0<a class=\"rm-stats-tracked\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S1550413122003977\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cell Metabolism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Louis Aronne, director of the Comprehensive Weight Control Center at Weill Cornell Medicine and New York-Presbyterian in New York City, reviewed the findings. When you eat matters to weight control, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEating all calories early in the day has been shown to reduce weight,\u201d Aronne said. \u201cThis study demonstrates that eating the same number of calories late rather than early can trigger mechanisms that lead to weight gain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Many people who eat late have little or nothing for breakfast, he noted. \u201cYou may not be hungry in the morning because you eat so much at bedtime,\u201d Aronne said.<\/p>\n<div id=\"adPlaceholder-0\">\n<div id=\"healthday_inarticle_300x250\" data-label=\"Advertisement\">\n<p>His advice? \u201cTry to shift your eating to early in the day by [eating] a bigger breakfast and lunch to reduce appetite at night.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Marion Nestle, a retired professor of nutrition, food studies, and public health at New York University, said eating earlier is not necessarily a panacea for\u00a0<a class=\"rm-stats-tracked\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/healthyweight\/prevention\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">weight loss<\/a>, but it could be helpful for some people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis study suggests that eating late at night changes the\u00a0<a class=\"rm-stats-tracked\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mayoclinic.org\/healthy-lifestyle\/weight-loss\/in-depth\/metabolism\/art-20046508?p=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">metabolism<\/a>\u00a0of people who are overweight in ways that make it more difficult for them to lose weight,\u201d said Nestle, who also reviewed the study findings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost research on the question of meal timing says it doesn\u2019t really matter, [but] what does matter is the total amount eaten in relation to caloric expenditure,\u201d she said. \u201cPeople who are trying to lose weight need to figure out how to do that in ways that work for them, [and] not eating late at night is worth a try.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>More information<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics offers<a class=\"rm-stats-tracked\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eatright.org\/health\/wellness\/your-overall-health\/back-to-basics-for-healthy-weight-loss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a0healthy ways to lose weight<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>SOURCES: Frank Scheer, Ph.D., MSc, director, Medical Chronobiology Program, Brigham and Women\u2019s Hospital, Boston, and professor, medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston; Louis Aronne, MD, director, Comprehensive Weight Control Center, Weill Cornell Medicine and New York-Presbyterian, New York City; Marion Nestle, Ph.D., MPH, professor emerita, nutrition, food studies and public health, New York University, New York City;\u00a0<em>Cell Metabolism<\/em>, Oct. 4, 2022<\/p>\n<p><em>This story was originally published on the HealthDay\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/consumer.healthday.com\/10-6-late-night-snacks-especially-bad-for-weight-gain-study-2658383766.html\">site.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"author_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"one_author_block round\">\n<div class=\"top_row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/author-denise-mann\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.everydayhealth.com\/images\/everydayhealth\/denise-mann-bio-177.jpg?w=150\" alt=\"Denise Mann\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Denise Mann, MS is a veteran freelance health writer in New York. Her work has appeared on HealthDay, among other outlets. She was awarded the 2004 and 2011 journalistic Achievement Award from the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery. She was also named the 2011 National Newsmaker of the Year by the Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America. She&#8217;s also been awarded the Arthritis Foundation&#8217;s Northeast Region Prize for Online Journalism, the Excellence in Women&#8217;s Health Research Journalism Award, the Gold Award for Best Service Journalism from the Magazine Association of the Southeast, a Bronze Award from The American Society of Healthcare Publication Editors, and an honorable mention in the International Osteoporosis Foundation Journalism Awards. She was part of the writing team awarded a 2008 Sigma Delta Chi award for her part in a WebMD series on autism. 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