Eating at night is dangerous to health
Last reviewed: 27.11.2021
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There are few people who never made a trip to the refrigerator at night. Someone has this associated with a constant feeling of emptiness in the stomach. Someone just can not wait until the morning to enjoy your favorite pastry. If this happens in your life only occasionally, then it's not scary. Much more seriously, if such "raids" are chronic.
According to a new study, regular night meals increase the risk of developing diabetes and complex heart disease - for example, myocardial infarction.
Night gluttony has long been investigated by doctors. Recently, even a new term appeared - "night appetite syndrome".
Previously, scientists have already proved that night attacks of eating sweets can be hereditary, and such heredity can stretch from very distant ancestors.
In ancient times people were completely dependent on nature and external factors. Therefore, before going to bed, everyone preferred to have a good meal - after all, it was impossible to predict when again the opportunity to eat "before dumping" would appear. Dense food intake was a necessary condition for human survival.
Now people lead a mostly sedentary lifestyle, and it accompanies food abundance and a tendency to overeating. Therefore, every extra night meal can play a cruel joke, the result of which will be metabolic and cardiovascular disorders.
The human body has its own internal clock, adapted to the natural day and night cycle. The same organism is set up for a certain time of food intake, night rest and active pastime.
If the brain ignores the course of the internal clock, then the health and well-being of the person is jeopardized.
Scientists have scientifically proved that eating with a disruption of an adequate circadian rhythm leads to the appearance of extra pounds.
What did the experts in the new study prove?
Dr. Ruud Bouise and colleagues are confident that eating at night increases the risk of developing diabetes and myocardial infarction. According to Dr. Buiys, the "overturn" of the biological rhythm can increase the level of lipids and triglycerides in the bloodstream, and also change the glucose metabolism.
The doctor and a group of scientists conducted experiments on rodents, tracking the effect of biological rhythm on the level of triglycerides in the bloodstream.
It was found that when eating at night, this level was significantly higher than normal. In those rodents who were adequately fed - in the daytime - the level of triglycerides was within normal limits. Then the scientists removed the site of the brain responsible for the regulation of the circadian rhythm. After removal, the content of triglycerides no longer depended on the time of day: the biological clock "stopped".
Thus, experts concluded: eating at night rudely upsets the circadian rhythm. This is extremely negatively perceived by the body and leads to severe disturbances in metabolic processes, which is fraught with the development of diabetes, heart attack, stroke, etc.
Details can be found on the pages of the publication Experimental Physiology.
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