Author: Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn / Source: did you know?
When you’re trying to eat healthy or even lose a few pounds, one of the most common pieces of advice is not to snack after a certain time – usually anytime after one eats dinner. But is it really true that we can never give in to those midnight cravings?
First of all, let’s dispel the myth that food eaten after a certain hour always turns into fat, like the your stomach knows how to read a clock. You gain weight when more calories go in your body than go out, full stop. And yet, the participants in multiple experiments have proven that people who tend to eat late at night do tend to gain more weight and keep it on.
So what’s up with that?
Well, a recent group of studies out of Northwestern…
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