Your fondness for midnight snacks has caused you to pack on the pounds over the years, and now researchers have a better understanding of why.
While late-night eating has long been linked with an increased risk for obesity, researchers weren’t sure exactly how it caused weight gain until now.
“When meals are delayed by four hours and everything else stays the same, you burn fewer calories, have an increased drive for food, and experience changes in fat tissue that would promote weight gain,” said study author Frank Scheer. He’s the director of the Medical Chronobiology Program at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and a professor at Harvard Medical School….