Thursday, March 18, 2010

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Worried that you can’t eat dinner after 8pm, as your body won’t burn off the calories? When scientists studied monkeys who consumed 65 per cent of their calories at night, they found they weighed the same as those eating the same diet, but who had only six per cent of their calories at night. Night-time nibbling is only an issue if it adds extra calories to your diet, such as munching crisps mindlessly in front of the TV. “We eat for reasons other than hunger at night – boredom, stress, tiredness etc,” says diet coach Chrissie Webber  “To break the habit, look at the emotion you’re really feeding and address that.”

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