A nutritionist has debunked the widely-held notion that late-night eating is a major cause of pot belly. Speaking to Jonnie Hughes on the health segment of the 3FM Sunrise Morning Show, Nutritionist Fred Amese said “people tend to say that when you eat late at night, you would get pot belly; it is not true.”
He went on to clarify that the problem is not about the time you eat. The problem is about the duration between your last meal and your sleeping time.
“So you can say oh for me I eat my supper at 6 pm. I don’t eat late at night. If you eat at 6 pm and 6:15 pm you are sleeping and someone eats at 11 pm and sleeps at 1 am, you the one eating at 6 pm have done nothing. You would develop a pot belly and the one eating at 11 pm would not have a pot belly” he explained.
He stressed that the issue about late-night eating is not about the time per se. It is about the duration between the time one eats and the time the person goes to sleep. “So don’t worry yourself about it oh it’s late I won’t eat. If it’s late and you are hungry, eat. But make sure that you wait enough, move around, do some brisk walking, etc” Fred Amese stated.
The nutritionist also noted there are some people who sit in front of their television to have their supper and fall asleep immediately for the television to even end up watching them instead of them watching the television. “Such people would develop pot belly even if that eating is done at 6 pm” he cautioned
By Samuel Afriyie Owusu|3news.com|Ghana
