Written by: Carrie Dennett, MPH, RDN
The advice to avoid eating at night is so common—usually in the context of dieting and weight loss—that it’s practically become gospel. But is it true that eating at night causes weight gain or harms health? Let’s take a look at the research.
More than a decade ago, a study did find that eating at night lead to significant weight gain, compared with eating during the day—but that study was on mice. Research on humans is a little more nuanced…
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