Eating lunch late leads to obesity, says study

Going in for a late lunch might actually make it harder for you to shed the pounds, according to researchers. Researchers from Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston and the University of Murcia studied 420 overweight people who followed a 20-week weight-loss treatment programme in Spain. Half of the group ate lunch their biggest meal of the day before 3 p.m., while half ate later. Those who ate before 3 p.m. lost 30 percent more weight than those who dined later, the International Journal of Obesity reports. Senior author Frank Scheer, from Brigham said: This is the first large-scale prospective study to demonstrate that the timing of meals predicts weight-loss effectiveness. Our results indicate that late eaters displayed a slower weight-loss rate and lost significantly less weight than early eaters. The team divided the participants into two groups: early eaters and late eaters. Early eaters ate lunch any time before 3 p.m. and late eaters, after 3 p.m. During the meal, 40 percent of
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