I was always told to eat more food early in the day and less at dinner so you're not overlapping sleep with digestion.
Well it turns out that those who told you so might be *correct*, even if the reason might not be.
There's nothing correct about the idea that sleep and digestion shouldn't happen at the same time. In fact, as you're ignoring, it's already been pointed out that this would be pretty much impossible, as digestion takes place over a few days and humans require sleep and food on a schedule that would make separation of the two impossible.
well, I wouldn't say impossible but certainly improbable, uncomfortable, and unhealthy. That would be some extreme version of IF, though!
I was always told to eat more food early in the day and less at dinner so you're not overlapping sleep with digestion.
Well it turns out that those who told you so might be *correct*, even if the reason might not be.
There's nothing correct about the idea that sleep and digestion shouldn't happen at the same time. In fact, as you're ignoring, it's already been pointed out that this would be pretty much impossible, as digestion takes place over a few days and humans require sleep and food on a schedule that would make separation of the two impossible.
What? Clearly all of your body's vital functions stop when you sleep and you are temporarily dead. Next you'll say your heartbeat continues.
Or you'll say off the wall things like the majority of your calories are burned during sleep.
Or that things like lack of stuff to digest actually causes issues with staying asleep for lean people dieting like bodybuilders.
Or something like the kidneys and bladder keep functioning, which obviously no one has proof of because no one ever wakes up feeling like they done any work.
Clearly digestion is just an on/off switch like all lights are, and sleep is the off position.
I was always told to eat more food early in the day and less at dinner so you're not overlapping sleep with digestion.
Well it turns out that those who told you so might be *correct*, even if the reason might not be.
There's nothing correct about the idea that sleep and digestion shouldn't happen at the same time. In fact, as you're ignoring, it's already been pointed out that this would be pretty much impossible, as digestion takes place over a few days and humans require sleep and food on a schedule that would make separation of the two impossible.
well, I wouldn't say impossible but certainly improbable, uncomfortable, and unhealthy. That would be some extreme version of IF and prolonged periods of sleeplessness, though!
Did someone say that people who self report their food consumption after the fact may incorrectly recall the food they ate and that people who don't successfully implement rigid rules about eating at night are more likely to over-eat as opposed to people over-eating during morning hours? More time available to consume food, higher tendency to relax and reward, willing to self sooth after combating accumulated hunger/stress during the day. Not wanting to go to bed hungry. You know... all the reasons many of us prefer to eat most of our food at night, assuming we can accommodate this within our caloric goals? Waiting for the metabolic chamber results...
Our data show that the time of day of food intake makes a difference in humans’ energy expenditure and metabolic responses to meals.
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We clearlyshow that DIT is 2.5 times higher after breakfast than after dinner.
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Overall, the diurnal variations in DIT, independent of the calorie content of the meals, imply that the time of food intake is important not only in the prevention of obesity but also in terms of diets for weight loss.
Our data show that the time of day of food intake makes a difference in humans’ energy expenditure and metabolic responses to meals.
...
We clearlyshow that DIT is 2.5 times higher after breakfast than after dinner.
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Overall, the diurnal variations in DIT, independent of the calorie content of the meals, imply that the time of food intake is important not only in the prevention of obesity but also in terms of diets for weight loss.
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well, I wouldn't say impossible but certainly improbable, uncomfortable, and unhealthy. That would be some extreme version of IF, though!
What? Clearly all of your body's vital functions stop when you sleep and you are temporarily dead. Next you'll say your heartbeat continues.
Or you'll say off the wall things like the majority of your calories are burned during sleep.
Or that things like lack of stuff to digest actually causes issues with staying asleep for lean people dieting like bodybuilders.
Or something like the kidneys and bladder keep functioning, which obviously no one has proof of because no one ever wakes up feeling like they done any work.
Clearly digestion is just an on/off switch like all lights are, and sleep is the off position.
FIFY
Study made in Germany just published in the The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism
https://academic.oup.com/jcem/article/105/3/dgz311/5740411
What even is DIT?