Healthy Lifestyle: Eating dinner right before your bedtime could sabotage your overall health in more than just a way. Leading nutrition experts suggest that late-night meals could disrupt the natural rhythms of your body, packing on waistline fat.
Healthy Lifestyle-Why Dinner Timing Matters?
The circadian clock of your body regulates digestion, hormone release and metabolism, peaking efficiency during daylight hours. Eating dinner after 8 pm could possibly clash with rising melatonin levels, impairing fat burning and glucose tolerance. This alignment could increase insulin resistance, turning evening calories into stubborn abdominal and visceral fat instead of energy.
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Consuming your dinner late could end up elevating blood sugar and triglycerides, delaying fat oxidation overnight. It could also lead to high HbA1c levels and metabolic syndrome, causing cortisol spikes and high body fat.
Expert-Backed Science
Several studies have revealed that irregular meal timings could drive obesity through reduced evening thermogenesis and melatonin-glucose interference. Irregular dinner timings could increase the risk of high blood pressure, heart disease or unexplained weight gain.
It is because of this reason that medical practitioners across the world recommend the consumption of dinner 3-4 hours before you retire for the bed. This sync with the concept of Ayurvedic ‘mitahara’ (measured eating) for optimal agni (digestive fire). This also ensures microbiota diversity and heart health.
Ideally, you should make use of smaller utensils to take smaller food bites. It is also a good habit to consume your meals at a designated place such as kitchen table instead of consuming it in the front of a television.
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