Eating at night is a common phenomenon among rural and urban settlers and based on poor eating habit acquired over the years, dumping the practice for many has become an uphill task.
Previous studies tend to show that when food is consumed late at night — anywhere from after dinner to outside a person’s typical sleep/wake cycle — the body is more likely to store those calories as fat and gain weight rather than burn it as energy, said Kelly Allison of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine’s Center for Weight and Eating Disorders.
However, in the new study, researchers at the National Autonomous
University of Mexico looked at levels of fat, called triglycerides, in
the rats’ blood and found that after feeding the rats fat at the
beginning of their rest period, their blood fat levels spiked more
drastically than when fed during the beginning of their active phase.
When they removed the part of the rat’s brain that controls the 24-hour
cycle, there was no longer a change in fat levels.High blood fat levels are associated with heart disease and diabetes
and these diseases are associated with a lifestyle where humans ignore
the signals of the biological clock, and eat in the evening and night.The new study demonstrates why such a lifestyle that’s out of tune
with human’s 24- hour cycle may result in high blood fat levels and thus
in a higher risk for heart problems, the ‘science daily’ reported.Ruud Buijs is professor of neurobiology and senior research scientist
at Biomedicas Institute at the UNAM University in Mexico. He said: “The
fact that we can ignore our biological clock is important for survival;
we can decide to sleep during the day when we are extremely tired or we
run away from danger at night.
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