Eating at night makes you fat

Why make nightly meals fat show a study

05/14/2014

Those who eat regularly at night, often tends to overweight. Nutritionists suspect the reason in a disturbance of the internal clock by the temporal shift of the meals.

In the brain, a central clock regulates when we are awake and when we sleep. However, there are also internal clocks outside the brain. They tick in virtually every cell of the body, where individual genes are stronger or weaker at night than during the day. Among other things, the inner clocks influence the energy metabolism in the liver, adipose tissue and musculature. And this affects your body weight.

Thus, the formation of the hormones insulin, glucagon, leptin, adiponectin and ghrelin is subject to daily fluctuations. For example, leptin, which suppresses hunger, is increasingly produced during the night. Even with the individual enzymes, which process the nutrients in the body, there are daily fluctuations. When we eat has an influence on whether energy is consumed or stored in the fatty tissue. Night eaters are disadvantaged.

The diet can adjust the internal clock. High-fat meals have, according to the research results of Dr. med. Pivovarova a different effect than a carbohydrate-rich diet (pm)

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