June 13, 2017.
According to a study conducted by a team of researchers at the University of Pennsylvania in the United States, eating late would make you fat, but it would also be bad for your health.
Increased risk of developing chronic diseases
People who are looking to lose weight are advised to stop eating after 6 p.m. A recommendation that could be followed by all, since according to a study conducted by American researchers, eating late at night increases the risk of developing chronic diseases such as diabetes. To reach this conclusion, the researchers asked nine healthy adults to eat at specific times.
For the first 8 weeks, participants had to eat three meals a day and two snacks between 8 a.m. and 7 p.m. For the next 8 weeks, they had to eat three meals a day and two snacks, but from 12 p.m. to 11 p.m. The researchers carefully followed the evolution of the weight of the participants, but also their insulin, fasting blood sugar (blood sugar level), cholesterol and triglyceride (lipids) levels.
Changing habits to maintain good health
They were able to observe that people who dined late had seen their weight but also their insulin levels, their blood sugar levels and their cholesterol significantly increase. Clues that lead to believe that these late dinners could be the cause of weight gain, but also cardiovascular diseases and diabetes.
They were also able to observe that the hormone responsible for feeling full, leptin, was secreted more when we had an early dinner. ” Changing your habits isn’t always easy, but these results still suggest that eating early in the day may help prevent chronic adverse health effects. “, Estimated Professor Kelly Allison who participated in the work.
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