Snacking before bed may not be such a bad thing. Researchers find eating fewer calories contributes more to weight loss than the timing of your meals.
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University asked 547 people to record the size of their meals and the timing of when they ate in a mobile app daily for six months. The scientists then looked at how much the participants weighed over the course of around six years — five-plus years before they began logging their meals and roughly six months after — using electronic health records.
"This study shows that changing your timing of eating is not going to prevent slow weight gain over many, many years — and that probably the most effective strategy is by really monitoring how much you eat, and by eating fewer large meals and more small meals," said Dr. Wendy Bennett, an author of the study and associate professor at Johns Hopkins Medicine.
Bennett, however, said her study provides evidence that restricting meal size can be effective for weight loss, even after adjusting for people’s baseline weights.
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