Meal Timing Study Says Don’t Eat at Night?
With broscience running all over the fitness industry, we came to find out that meal timing and frequency really means nothing these days. You have people following IIFYM (if it fits your macros) as well as the intermittent fasting crowd. Both of which, I am a huge fan of. However, it appears that new research is telling everyone to pump the brakes if you were considering eating a late-night snack or extending your meals late into the night.
Resist the Urge
It comes as no surprise that American’s love to divulge in treats at night, especially while watching hours of their favorite non-educational shows like the Bachelorette or the Kardashian’s. But now researchers are telling you to at least refrain from one of them in a new study (I’d tell you to give up both) — and that’s eating late at night.
This new study published by the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania is saying eating late at night can increase weight, slow down fat metabolism, increase cholesterol levels as well as insulin, can increase your risk for diabetes and heart disease, as well as other health problems. So, is research saying don’t utilize meal timing late at night?
How It All Went Down (Literally) — with Meal Timing
For this particular study, the researchers used nine healthy adults. Each of the nine participants were to follow two separate eating schedules. Before the study began researchers drew blood from the adults to get baseline values. Then again, they were tested after their first completed eating schedule which was 8 weeks, and then again after their next 8-week eating schedule. There was a two-week gap between the eating schedules to allow their bodies to return to baseline before starting the next schedule (which they also had their blood drawn after the two-week break).
For the first schedule, all participants were asked to eat three meals and two snacks between 8 am and 7 pm. They were also asked to sleep between 11 pm and 9 am. After the eight weeks, they had blood drawn. This was then followed up by the two-week rest period.
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