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Eating late can change how you burn calories and store fat, study shows (www.sciencealert.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by MicroWave to c/health

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A study suggests eating later in the day can directly impact our biological weight regulation in three key ways: through the number of calories that we burn; our hunger levels; and the way our bodies store fat.

With obesity now affecting hundreds of millions of people worldwide, this is a valuable insight into how the risk of becoming obese could be lowered in a relatively simple way – just by eating our meals a few hours earlier.

Earlier studies had already identified a link between the timing of meals and weight gain, but here the researchers wanted to look at that link more closely, as well as teasing out the biological reasons behind it.

"We wanted to test the mechanisms that may explain why late eating increases obesity risk," said neuroscientist Frank Scheer, from Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston in 2022 when the study was published.

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[–] givesomefucks 7 points 1 year ago (15 children)

You're misunderstanding is you think the basal metobalism while asleep is the same as awake...

I'm sure there's lots of other things, but that's what really giving you trouble right now.

It's an incredibly basic part of biology

[–] test113 -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

lol, what? No, do you misunderstand me on purpose?

I said a calorie is a calorie, no matter when you eat it; it does not change its energy content; because you said a calorie is not a calorie.
I said you process it differently depending on your body, which is basically what you're trying to say with the metabolism change.

To make it clear what I meant before: my point is the calorie is never the changing part in the equation; it just is what it is—a calorie measurement (a calorie is a calorie). But the other part of the equation, your body, is ever-changing depending on a lot of factors like the time of the day, health, etc.

The simple calorie intake to burnt calories ratio is still a valid stat since energy is a constant.

It's an incredibly basic part of physics. ;)

(Why are you so condescending? It's weird how you acknowledge my points and seem to mean the same thing, but at the same time, you think I am wrong and do not understand it.)

[–] givesomefucks 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Well, I could try explaining it again so that in a couple days you reply again still upset at me that you cant understand it...

Or I could just block you, then Ill completely forget you exist and never have to try and explain stuff again ..