Eating in the evening does not make you fat anymore

Refuted Nutrition Rule: Eat dinner does not make you fat

08/16/2012

The old dietary fist rule „In the morning like a king, at lunchtime like a peasant and in the evening like a beggar“ does not help with weight loss. The time of eating is negligible when losing weight, more crucial is the amount of calories, which is supplied throughout the course of the day to the body. However, these must always be considered in relation to energy consumption.

Many people adhere to the dietary rule of dieting, which should be recorded as low as possible in the evening if possible. But this is according to the nutrition expert Gisela Olias of the German Institute for Nutritional Research (DIfE) in Potsdam on a mistake. The timing of food intake is not crucial for success in losing weight. Rather, the energy balance of the entire day, so the ratio of calorie intake and consumption according to the expert is crucial.

Time of meals not crucial
In the evening, larger meals are strictly taboo for many people who want to lose weight. Allegedly make the evening food rather thick, so the statement of the diet rule mentioned above. For breakfast, therefore, should be extensively feasted. However, nutrition experts see these rules as outdated. Although it is currently being discussed in the professional world, whether several small or rather few large meals distributed throughout the day, are conducive to weight loss. In general, however, the experts agree that the timing of food intake is less critical than the total intake of calories relative to the body's energy consumption.

The energy balance is crucial for those who want to lose weight
According to Gisela Olias of the German Institute of Human Nutrition, the energy balance of the whole day counts for those who want to lose weight. Under no circumstances could those affected rely on losing weight simply by abstaining from the evening meal. If you take in large quantities of calories in the morning, even starving in the evening will help a little. In the end, the same amount of energy will be absorbed as during many smaller meals throughout the day. „Importantly, the body does not absorb more calories throughout the day than it consumes again“, said the nutrition expert of the DIfE to the news agency „dpa“. To control this, Olias recommends keeping a nutritional record for a week. Here all recorded food is recorded. Subsequently, the daily amount of calories consumed can be determined.

Nutritional protocol as the basis of the diet
The nutritional protocol makes the willing to lose weight, „where the calories come from and where I could possibly save some, "explained the expert.So discovered calorie bombs, which could be best avoided, according to the expert, especially soft drinks such as cola 400 calories a liter of apple juice, which, according to the expert, a calorie amount that contributes little to satiety and on the diet can be dispensed with.

Evening meals ensure restless sleep
The DIfE's nutrition expert also dispelled another common misconception about evening food from the world. For dieting, the dietary rule that no food should be eaten at least two hours before going to bed has little consequence. Although the body consumes less energy during the night, but since there is no further feed at night, in the morning after getting up in the morning, the energy supplied in the evening is quickly reduced again. Although it is not related to the success of dieting, abstinence from bedtime eating is certainly a cause. For anyone who eats just before going to bed, burdened his sleep by the digestive process. The affected people sleep more restless. People who suffer from sleep problems should therefore take their last meals around two hours before bedtime. (Fp)

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