Sometimes you can just in a different way: The Hunger tear one out of sleep, and driving to the fridge. This is a serious disorder or just a bad habit?
The need to clarify the research – but science has already given it a name: The Night-Eating syndrome or, in short, NES cravings referred to attacks during the night, the sleep interrupt.
Induce the hormones to midnight snack?
The causes are, ultimately, still unclear. However, some studies suggest that the hormones play a role. Previous findings show that data is significantly lower melatonin values – the hormone that ensures deep and uninterrupted sleep.
Often this defect is accompanied by a low value of the hormone Leptin, is the satiety feeling responsible For this Interaction, it comes increasingly to night-time cravings.
These factors disturb sleep
In addition to hormonal imbalances, there are other possible causes: Stress, noise, and other factors can lead to insufficient sleep quality.
Too late, intense Workouts leave the body hard to come to rest, and encourage nighttime appetite seizures.
Health risks for sleep disorders
Sleep is in the normal case, the physiological state of Recovery of the body. That means that Now, all of the regeneration processes. Between one and four o’clock in the institutions are running at full speed, above all the liver.
You will be woken in this stage of Hunger and to satisfy it, the metabolism out of sync. A disorder of the inner clock can have a weakened immune system, susceptibility to infections, allergies as well as discomfort to the consequence.
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Regular night snacks can make you fat
It is, of course, to snack Time at night, makes neither fat nor sick. It becomes problematic only when it develops to a permanent condition.
“The body is capable of, rarely occurring irregularities in the food intake or the sleep-Wake rhythm in balance.
It becomes dangerous when it comes to permanent disturbances and the internal clock including metabolic changes in the long term.
Obesity is favoured and may even result in metabolic diseases such as type II Diabetes,“ says Sabrina Maaßen, diploma-Trophologin in the Klinikum Passau, Germany.
For the figure of the nocturnal eating is especially harmful when the midnight calories on top. Especially when it comes to high-calorie food.
Who makes up at night because he eats during the day, hardly any, charged to his total calorie balance hardly at all. Healthier, however, would be a regular eating before sunset.
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Source
- Goel, N. et al. (2009): Circadian Rhythm Profiles in Women with Night Eating Syndrome, retrieved on 17.01.2020: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3564642/
Stefanie Naumann
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