Why eat a sugary meal right before going to bed?

  1. Food high in sugar is nutritionally good for short burst energy, and if not used up, that energy is stored as fat. Since people generally go to sleep after meals are they not wasting this potential short-release energy yield?

  2. Let’s consider instead that we eat dessert specifically to put on fat. Well, this may have been desirable as an outcome historically, but for a long time - maybe 200 years or so - humans have NOT wanted to build fat. Also - it doesn’t work. We burn fat during sleep, so those ‘dessert gains’ disappear.

  3. Now let us visit the simplest answer of “it tastes good” - well in that case, why do we eat dessert when we do? We could eat sugary snack at any point of the day - a dessert-lunch might make a lot of sense! So let me repeat myself:

Why eat a sugary meal right before going to bed?

  • OriginEnergySux@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    After a long hard day working at a shitty corporation, a yummy dinner isnt enough. I like that little extra yum yum before bed (like dark chocolate or semolina pudding with honey) coz it makes me feel happy. I like my vices, even though i know they are bad so i try to not go overboard