Title: Why eating late at night may be particularly bad for you and your diet - The Washington Post
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Cold turkey is no way to curb late eating
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“There are still many questions to answer,” Garaulet says, and further study should focus on “clock” genes in fat tissue that can affect metabolism. She is exploring what happens if you eat at the wrong time for your body-fat clock — i.e., at a time when your fat tissue is not ready for it. “ It could be that if you eat late, then the capability your body has to mobilize [and burn] fat is lower because it’s not the right time,” Garaulet says. Dining like kings
Most Americans spurn the adage to “eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper.” U.S. adults consume 17 percent of their day’s calories at breakfast, 24 percent at lunch and 34 percent at dinner, according to the USDA’s “What we eat in America” survey. But why? It may be the pace of work life, which leaves room for little more than a quick breakfast and lunch during the typical weekday. But circadian rhythms — the internal body clock that regulates sleep and other cycles based on light and darkness — may also be a factor. In a small study published in 2013, a group of non-obese adults stayed in a dimly lit area for 13 days, got plenty of sleep and consumed identical meals at even intervals throughout 24-hour periods. Despite that regularity, they still reported being substantially hungrier at 8 p.m., than they were at 8 a.m. They also had more cravings for sweet, salty and starchy foods in the evening.