Recent medical research shows that when you eat may influence your weight gain just as much as what you eat.

Northwestern University researchers tested whether the hour of meal consumption could influence body weight. Plenty of diet books suggest to would-be weight losers to stop eating after 6 or 7 p.m. However, it’s never been clear if the strategy works because you have more time to digest before going to bed or because eating late at night has some sort of unknown physiological drawback.  Additionally, we tend to overeat in the evenings (especially when nobody is around).

As most researchers do, these researchers studied two groups of mice who ate, or rather, were fed, the exact same diets of food.  For the study, half the mice were fed the diet during the time they would normally be sleeping — simulating late-night eating in humans. The other half were given the same food on their regular eating schedule.

At the end of the six week study period, mice in both groups had consumed about the same amount of calories and performed the same amount of exercise. However, the mice who ate when they normally would have been sleeping hours posted an average 48 percent increase in body weight. The mice who ate on a regular schedule had an average increase of 20 percent of body weight. The findings will be published in the October issue of the journal Obesity.

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