Eating late can make you fat - Simple things to do to prevent Obesity....

When we eat may be just as important as what we put in our mouths- researchers suggest.

'To eat is necessity but to eat intelligently is art’
Human body needs to eat, in order to live and survive; however, living healthy life   is more important than mere surviving. 
We all are aware that eating fatty sugary food piles on the pounds. However, researchers suggest that, when we eat may be just as important as what we put in our mouths.

Eating while we stay up to browse the internet or watch a late film is likely to be contributing to rising obesity levels, warn scientists, reports Daily Mail.
The warning comes after tests on mice. One group were allowed to eat only during an eight-hour period, while a second group could graze on what they wanted all day and night.

US researchers found that even though the two groups were eating about the same amount of calories, those who ate at set times during the day did not become obese. They suggest that those who ate when they wanted to; gained weight because they disrupted their body clock – and they believe the same principle may apply to humans.

Study Author explanation
Dr Satchidananda Panda, the study’s lead author, said that at certain times of day the liver, intestines and muscles are at peak efficiency, while at other times they are ‘sleeping’. He added: ‘Every organ has a clock. Those metabolic cycles are critical.
‘When mice or people eat throughout the day and night, it can throw off those normal metabolic cycles.’
At the end of their study, the mice that ate all day and night had 70 per cent more fatty deposits than the time-restricted group.
Dr Panda, of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in California, said eating patterns may have changed in recent years as people have more reasons to stay up into the night. Writing in the journal Cell Metabolism, the research team suggests that restricting meal times could help to lower obesity levels.

Expert says
Tam Fry of the National Obesity Forum said: ‘There’s a pattern, which you should build up from childhood, of three set meals a day.
‘Anything you do to upset that opens you up to problems with the hormones that control appetite.’

Why eating Carbohydrates at Night can make you Fat
According to researcher Dr. Bill Misner Ph.D., "allowing the body to settle into a fasting state 3 hours prior to bedtime totally clears gastric-related digestive activity, allowing the maximum 5-pulsatile human growth hormone (HGH) bolus to be released from the pituitary gland. The mechanism of postprandial diurnal pulsatile growth hormone peak is largely dependent upon lowering blood levels of free fatty acids, blood sugar (including insulin) which in general takes 3 hours before levels reach their respective nadir. (read more on the subject: Dr. Bill Misner Article)

KEY POINTS FOR NIGHT TIME EATING

• Try not to eat anything within 3 hours of going to sleep
• Try cutting out starchy & simple carbs after 6pm (fruit, rice, bread, potatoes, pasta)
• If you have to snack at night, stick to lean protein sources & veggies (low carbs)

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