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Stupi question. But okai so the other night,I got home from chillin w/some friends and I hadn't eatten much the whole day. So I was like really really hungry. It was after 10pm. I went to get a snack and my mom was tellin me that if I eat after 8 I'll gaiin weight or somthing. Is that true?
The idea that your digestion slows down because you are not awake is like saying your air conditioner turns off when you turn off the lights. Your digestion does NOT slow or stop when you are sleep. There are zero studies that say this. Zero.
Consider -- even if your digestive tract somehow knew you were asleep and was not able to process food as efficiently, why does that mean it would turn to fat? Processing food into fat IS digestion. If your GI tract were not digesting your food well, it would pass through your system untouched, not be efficiently processed into fat. People who are in comas for 10 years would be gigantic.
Once again, it is a myth. Just because you've heard it all your life does not make it true.
It is a fact that eating late at night keeps your stomach busy, continuing to produce gastric acids in an excessive amounts. Also Studies show that eating does have an effect on your sleep since those who ate late at night had a difficult time going into deep sleep because when you eat close to your bedtime your stomach is still working hard to digest your food. This ensures that needless calories will be consumed then stored as fat once it is processed.
my diabetic nurse 20 years ago told me the same thing...
we need a gd 8 hours sleep per night and if we eat after 8pm and go to bed at say 23:00 the food will not be able 2 digest properly and will turn to fat
but im trying to remember summet I was told 20+ years ago
bk in the day, yes it might have been true but nowadyas I couldnt tell you 100% whether it is or it isnt :S
It is a very common, very pervasive myth, but it is a myth. Your body does not process food any differently whether you are conscious or unconscious. You might not feel great going to sleep with a full stomach, but the only way to gain weight is to consume more calories than you burn. The time of day has nothing to do with it. Your intestines cannot tell time.
Eating right before you go to sleep can cause you to gain weight, because you are not active in your sleep. So, you won't burn of the calories like you would if you were awake and doing things.
yeah you can gain weight because you arent active and if you eat before bed you wont sleep as weel becasue your body will be digesting it