Proverbs 1: Eating after eight o'clock in the evening will definitely explode!

Many people firmly believe in the iron law of fasting after 8 pm. On the basis of this commandment, "Don't eat three hours before going to bed" and "During the weight loss period, the last meal of every day should be finished before 5 pm." A series of new meal time-limited sentences emerge one after another.

The basis of "night fasting" is low activity and low energy consumption at night. If you eat too much food, the calories that the body can't consume will be converted into fat and stored in the body, which will eventually lead to obesity.

Eating after eight o'clock at night will make you fat. Is that really the case?

American medical experts Aaron Carroll and Professor Rachel freeman refuted the above theory in their published books. They point out that eating more calories than the body consumes can lead to obesity. In other words, obesity is related to the calorie intake of food and has nothing to do with when to eat it.

If you are still skeptical about the remarks of Professor Aaron Carroll and Professor Rachel freeman, let's take a look at the reasons for obesity.

Human obesity is caused by fat. How is fat formed?

Adipose tissue is mainly composed of adipocytes, a small amount of fibroblasts and a small amount of intercellular collagen. When humans are 2-5 years old, adipocyte precursors can differentiate into adipocytes similar to fibroblasts, and some cells become "stem cells". 1 1- 14 years old, the number of adipocytes no longer increases. The decisive factor of obesity lies in the increase or decrease of fat cell volume. Because the number of fat cells in different parts is different, the speed of cell growth is also different, which leads to different degrees of obesity in different parts of a person.

After eating, food will be converted into energy to maintain the body's metabolic operation and daily activities. Once the intake of food calories can not be consumed by the body immediately, these remaining energy will become neutral fat and be stored in fat cells, which will increase the volume of fat cells and cause obesity.

Scientists at Oregon Medical University spent a year observing the relationship between food behavior and weight of monkeys. They set different diets for the monkeys as the research objects. Some monkeys eat during the day and some monkeys eat at night. The study found that the body mass index of monkeys who used to eat at night was very close to that of monkeys who ate during the day.

Scientists have confirmed that eating time has no major effect on weight gain. The chief culprit of obesity lies in the high total calories in the diet. It can be seen that whether intake and consumption are balanced is the key to decide whether to gain, lose or maintain weight. Every time you eat, your body stores excess calories and converts them into fat.