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Midnight snacks and late dinners are known to be bad for you, but it turns out that when you eat lunch also matters.

A lot of us think that what we eat is one of the only contributor to our weight, but there are other factors that dictate your size too. Exercise and diet are important, but when you eat is really important as well. Midnight snacks and late dinners are known to be bad for you, but it turns out that when you eat lunch also matters. New research shows that eating a late lunch may contribute to weight gain.

“…Meanwhile those who tucked into a late night kebab lose ‘significantly less weight’ than early eaters, and also put themselves at greater risk of developing diabetes.

The findings, published in the International Journal of Obesity, could help develop more effective weight-loss plans.

Researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and the University of Murcia studied 420 overweight people who followed a 20-week weight-loss treatment programme in Spain.

Senior author Dr Frank Scheer, from BWH said: ‘This is the first large-scale prospective study to demonstrate that the timing of meals predicts weight-loss effectiveness.

‘Our results indicate that late eaters displayed a slower weight-loss rate and lost significantly less weight than early eaters, suggesting that the timing of large meals could be an important factor in a weight loss programme.’

The team divided the particpants into two groups: early eaters and late eaters. During this meal, 40 per cent of the total daily calories were consumed.

Early eaters ate lunch any time before 3pm and late eaters, after 3pm. They found that late eaters lost significantly less weight than early eaters, and displayed a much slower rate of weight loss.”
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