At what time around in the night, you eat your dinner?
This question might sound silly but it is very important. Whether it is due to urgent work or due to social gatherings or due to some other reason, many of us eat dinner late in the night. Point is that there is no perfect dinner time these days where we all sit and eat dinner together. It is true that eating dinner after 9pm in the evening could be harmful for our health.
Various ways by which eating dinner late in the night would affect our health or side effects are
Disturbed sleep:
Our sleep quality would be significantly affected when we eat dinner late at night. By this, we would have disturbed sleep. In addition to this, eating dinner late would also result in digestive issues in us leading to unusual dreams.. A study conducted by Canada based researchers in 2015 showed that students who indulged in late night eating experienced unusual dreams. The reason for this was due to the fact that our body would find it difficult to digest food while at rest. It must be noted that eating late at night could promote a negative profile of weight, energy, hormone markers like higher glucose and insulin etc that are implicated in diabetes, triglycerides and cholesterol etc. These could lead to cardiovascular issues in us.
More risk of weight gain:
We would have good digestion if we eat early dinner. This would help in weight loss. Truth is that when we eat late dinner then the food would not get digested easily and would stay in the intestines. This would affect digestion also and weight loss would be difficult.
Poor digestion and bloating;
By eating late in the night, there would not be enough time for proper digestion as we would go to bed immediately after eating food. By this, there are possibilities of issues like acid reflux, bloating etc in us.
More risk of heart disease:
There are higher chances of getting heart diseases etc when we eat dinner late in the night. Those with issues like thyroid disorders, diabetes, PCOD etc could face issues with late dinners. So, please be careful.
High BP or hypertension:
Many of us eat sodium rich foods during dinners. Truth is that when we eat these salt based foods like dal, food, vegetables etc in the night, water retention and bloating would occur in us. This would increase the risk of blood pressssure.