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WHAT YOU EAT? OR WHEN YOU EAT?
If you’re a night owl, and run at night time, the chances are you eat your evening meal later than most. Could this be affecting both your sleep and your weight?
Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School in the US, and the University of Murcia in Spain, found that people eating large, heavy meals at bedtime had a higher body weight. The study, published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, and involving university students, also showed that people eating calories later in the day tended to have less sleep.