When to Eat...

Weight Watchers, Atkins, and South Beach Diets have all told dieters to limit the food they eat at night.  For generations, people have believed that food eaten at night when they’re less physically active is more likely to be stored as fat. 

This is not true!

Researchers tracked the eating habits of 7,400 U.S. men and women for ten years.  The percentage of daily calories that they ate after 5 pm had no bearing on their weight.

If you eat extra calories because you are tired or bored or stressed (and nighttime is when you are more likely to do that), expect those to eventually show up on your waist.

Remember: calories not used for energy are stored in the body as fat.  If you eat more than you burn off, you will gain weight.  That’s the bottom line.

Source:  www.cspinet.org