Many people think it is best not to eat at night, which can avoid fat accumulation and contribute to good health. So some people have the cognition that eating too much or eating too late at dinner is easy to accumulate fat.

But is this really the case? In fact, foreign countries have also done scientific experiments in this field.

Pan Da, a regulatory biologist at the La Jolla Sack Institute in California, once did a set of experiments with mice, and the experimental results were published in Cell Metabolism in May 17.

The researchers divided the experimental mice into two different AB groups and fed them in different ways 100 days. Both groups of mice were fed with high-fat and high-heat mouse food. Group A can eat it at any time, day and night, while Group B can only eat it within 8 hours at night.

The result is certainly surprising. The mice that ate early kept slim, almost the same as the control group that ate standard rat food. And those mice that eat day and night will get fat. Moreover, this group of obese mice also suffered from metabolic diseases such as high cholesterol, hyperglycemia and fatty liver, while the other group of mice had no symptoms. According to the results of this experiment, it is really helpful to stop eating early and not eat at night.

However, this view was soon opposed. These people think that mice are completely different from humans, and as Nocturnal Animals, their biological clocks are also different from humans. They will not be tempted by the food stalls in the night market, and there is no other menu to choose from.

What is the answer to the question whether we should eat at night? The American National Sports Medicine Association gave the following answers:

First of all, whether you are fat or not is not determined by the time you eat.

Weight gain is the result of eating too many calories. Some people's own work and rest rules and habits are: getting off work late, eating late and sleeping late at night, but the calories in the body are consumed, so they won't get fat.

Secondly, everyone's basal metabolism is different, as long as the daily intake of calories does not exceed the calories of basal metabolism, they will not gain weight.

For example, you need 2800 calories a day, but because you are busy today, you have no time to eat. It was not until the evening that 1000 calories were consumed. Then you are very tired and decide to go to bed after washing. Do you think you will get fat? No, because you still owe your body 1800 calories.

Therefore, eating too late will not make you fat. If you want to maintain or lose weight, you can still eat the delicious food you want as long as you calculate the calories you need every day, plan your diet for a day and distribute all kinds of nutrients reasonably ~

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