Many people wonder when the best time is to eat a big meal.
Are 10-course dinners before bed o.k., or is it a must to eat a healthy breakfast?
Instinctively we know the answer to these questions, but here’s a breakdown of exactly
why eating before bed isn’t such a sexy idea.
The 9 to 5 grind is making you fat and sick.
Well, indirectly.
For hundreds of years people have eaten one big meal usually consumed right in the middle
of the day.
The benefit of eating a large meal mid-day was that You weren’t likely to lay flat
for the rest of your waking hours, even if you took a little siesta after stuffing your
face.
The point is, you stayed active, and allowed your body to burn all those calories you just
consumed.
Your digestion was also aided by a simple fact – you remained upright.
You didn’t suffer from acid reflux, caused by your stomach acids leaking up past the
esophagus.
Then came the industrial revolution.
Hello 9 to 5.
Most of us started to skip breakfast.
Millions of people are lucky now to stuff some processed, nutritionless slop into our
mouths in front of a screen for a few hours, and then pass out before the next work-a-day
grind starts as our alarms blare out ungodly sounds before 7 AM.
This causes some unfavorable outcomes.
We don’t get the benefit of hormone regulation we get when we eat most of our calories during
the first part of the day.
People who eat a healthy breakfast have lower levels of ghrelin - the hormone that makes
us want to eat more.
And if we’ve just eaten a massive meal before bed, our bodies have to focus on digesting
it, instead of cleaning up the mess left from meals and metabolic processes of the days
before.
So Is it bad to eat before bed?
Well It has been since before the Industrial Revolution when laborers were forced into
early morning work and the daily grind – and hey, lunch exists, too.
Why not try that?
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