Eating at Night and Weight Gain
A study in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has found that regularly getting up to eat in the middle of the night can turn into a disorder known as night-eating syndrome, which leads to obesity.
Researchers trained mice to eat at midday (the nocturnal animals’ equivalent to the middle of the night).
After a few weeks, the mice began reversing their natural sleeping patterns so they were awake during the day.
Night-eating syndrome may occur when specific genes that tell you when to eat overpower genes that tell you when to sleep. “Once you establish such a biologically unnatural cycle, it’s difficult to reverse it,” says lead researcher Masashi Yanagisawa, M.D. [source: Women’s Health]
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