Eating Late At Night

Here is an interesting little note that I found in the February Issue of O Magazine (yes another tidbit from a really good issue). This is on the warning we have heard for years, eating before you go to bed makes you fat. FALSE!!!!

It has been proven that people who eat late at night do not get fat. It is what you eat and the amount of food you eat that makes you fat.

Researchers at the University of Texas had 867 people keep a diet diary. It turned out that people who ate more in the morning ate fewer calories overall. People who ate late at night ate more calories overall.

Typically, people who eat late at night are not postponing dinner, they are snacking on junk food or adding calories with alcohol.

The myth has been busted. It is not when you eat, but how much you eat. If you burn more calories than you eat you will lose weight. If you eat more calories than you burn you will gain weight.