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Don’t eat carbs after 5 - fact or fib?
Q. Some diet books advise to not eat carbs, or sometimes anything at all, after 5pm. Is it good advice?
A. A search by Sanitarium of more than 4,800 scientific journals in the National Library of Medicine Medline database failed to find a single study that supported the theory that carbohydrates need to be cut out after 5pm in order to lose weight. There are also no health authorities that endorse this type of approach.
In theory, cutting out some of the carbohydrates after 5pm or not eating after 8pm could reduce the total energy intake for the day. This would ultimately lead to a reduction in weight.
But realistically, this change in eating pattern is too restrictive for most people’s lifestyles. After 5pm is a social and family time. It is a time when the day’s activities are discussed over a meal, which usually contains some of the carbohydrates such as bread, pasta, rice and potatoes forbidden in the ‘no carbs after 5pm’ diet.
Realistic weight loss is all about sensible choices.
We’re better off reducing our portion sizes than not eating after 5pm or cutting out carbs. A recent study showed that a decrease in portion size led to a decrease in energy intake, with no changes in hunger reported.
When deciding on your portion size, ask yourself these questions:
- How much food have I eaten today – were they large portions?
- What type of foods were eaten – were they high fat, high energy foods per serve?
How much activity have I done today?
If you have eaten lots of food in big portions and had little exercise, then having smaller portions at night is sensible.
It is not the time of day that foods are eaten, but a combination of the total amount of foods, what the foods are made up of, the amount of activity taken over a day and general health that cause weight gain. If there is a balance of food intake and physical activity over a day, your body weight will remain stable.
Article by Rosie Stern for the Healthy Food Guide. For more great health advice and delicious recipes head to www.healthyfood.co.nz.
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its hard to try to do this i did it for a while and succeeded, trying to formnew habits Posted by jak74 "on" 08/19 "at"08:37 AM |
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