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Desire Snacking Most Powerful in the Night

Many people are hard to break the habit ngemilnya, especially between dinner and before bed. Turns urge to snack in the hour associated with the body's circadian rhythm.

According to a recent study published in the journal Obesity, the desire to eat something sweet, salty, or too starchy, reaching its peak at night, when hunger was being high.

Researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, USA, conducted a study on the matter, involving 12 healthy people. The respondents were placed in a laboratory environment to track the influence of the circadian rhythm or body clock on feeding behavior.

Apparently, no matter what the respondent or the time waking up their morning meal, the urge to snack something sweet, salty, or mealy peaked around 8 pm, as well as their hunger.

The researchers speculate that our body's internal clock has an influence on appetite, so we feel like eating continues at night.

According to Steven Shea, chairman of the researchers, from the point of view of the theory of evolution that makes sense.

"When humans are evolved to face periods of starvation, they are easy to store food as fat has a chance to survive. This causes the body prefers to store food as fat at night than during the day," he said.

Previous studies have also shown that people who eat a big meal in the morning they tend to be easier to lose weight than people who eat big at night, even though they are the same number of calories.

Unfortunately this time eating at night is no longer a survival mechanism. Because the habit of snacking at night can be dangerous due to accumulate body fat at just let obesity.

One way around this is to avoid the habit of sleeping late or replace the snack menu you become healthier.

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