Scientists have found that late snacks increase feelings of hunger

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Scientists have listed the consequences of eating at night. It turned out that a late dinner leads to an increase in the feeling of hunger.

In the journal Cell Metabolism, the results of research by scientists from the University of Chicago were published, which concluded that late snacks lead to an increase in the feeling of hunger. It was previously established that eating before going to bed leads to obesity, eating disorders, and disturbances in the normal rhythm of sleep.

According to the conducted experiment, a group of people with obvious excess weight was observed, whose nutrition occurred in a different mode. Some of the subjects ate when the body demanded it, while others ate strictly every four hours.

A survey was conducted that allowed us to find out exactly when the participants of the experiment experience hunger. For the purity of the result, additional laboratory tests were carried out and samples of people's blood and adipose tissue were taken. Body temperature was measured and the energy expenditure of each subject was recorded.

After the experiment, it was established that the feeling of hunger increases in the group of people who take food as needed, trying to have a snack before going to bed.

Similar, as it turned out, is due to a decrease in the level of the hormone leptin, the presence of which gives the same “feeling of satiety”. In addition, with a late meal, the calories received with food were burned worse, due to which the accumulation of adipose tissue occurred.