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Eating late can change how you burn calories and store fat, study shows (www.sciencealert.com)

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A study suggests eating later in the day can directly impact our biological weight regulation in three key ways: through the number of calories that we burn; our hunger levels; and the way our bodies store fat.

With obesity now affecting hundreds of millions of people worldwide, this is a valuable insight into how the risk of becoming obese could be lowered in a relatively simple way – just by eating our meals a few hours earlier.

Earlier studies had already identified a link between the timing of meals and weight gain, but here the researchers wanted to look at that link more closely, as well as teasing out the biological reasons behind it.

"We wanted to test the mechanisms that may explain why late eating increases obesity risk," said neuroscientist Frank Scheer, from Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston in 2022 when the study was published.

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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

It almost certainly takes more energy to convert calories to fat and then back to usable energy for your body to use… So what?

Because you think a human body wants to be "healthy" ...

It doesn't, it wants to pack on all the fat it can to survive periods where food isn't plentiful.

We didn't evolve for unlimited cheap calories, our bodies still act like we're living in caves.

Seriously, this is all very very basic stuff, you'll learn a lot more reading about this then asking questions on social media and hoping you not only get the right answer, but explained in a way that makes sense.

but what you’re saying doesn’t make sense to me thermodynamically

BECAUSE THIS IS A HELL OF A LOT MORE COMPLICATED THAN CICO

Something I've been unable to explain in a way you can understand.

I doubt bolded all caps will help, but that's literally my last hailmary.

Go read some actual scientific texts if you want to learn more.