How Late Is TOO Late - Are You Becoming Sick and Fat As You Sleep?
Does it matter when we eat or what we eat? Unfortunately, for those of us who love food, the answer is yes! Food that is consumed at night is not processed as efficiently as it is during the day. What happens in our life after dinner? We wind down; we prepare to end our day. That is what we should be doing the last hour or two of our day... preparing for sleep. What is the purpose of sleep? Sleep is when we recharge and when our bodies repair. Our bodies need all their resources for this task. If it has to work on digesting food, because that would be a priority for the body if there is food present in the digestive system, then very little repair happens. It is not uncommon to have disrupted sleep when we go to bed after eating a large or hard to digest meal too close to bedtime. This is because the body is working hard to digest what was eaten recently. Meat takes longer than any other foods to digest. For good health avoiding eating meat late at night, as it tends to stay in the...