Why eat a sugary meal right before going to bed?

  1. Food high in sugar is nutritionally good for short burst energy, and if not used up, that energy is stored as fat. Since people generally go to sleep after meals are they not wasting this potential short-release energy yield?

  2. Let’s consider instead that we eat dessert specifically to put on fat. Well, this may have been desirable as an outcome historically, but for a long time - maybe 200 years or so - humans have NOT wanted to build fat. Also - it doesn’t work. We burn fat during sleep, so those ‘dessert gains’ disappear.

  3. Now let us visit the simplest answer of “it tastes good” - well in that case, why do we eat dessert when we do? We could eat sugary snack at any point of the day - a dessert-lunch might make a lot of sense! So let me repeat myself:

Why eat a sugary meal right before going to bed?

  • Swaus01@piefed.socialOPEnglish
    14·
    21 hours ago

    If food were just about cold, hard, logical choices based on nutrition alone, we’d all just eat Soylent Red and Yellow.

    False.

    Yes your principle is right though. I just wonder how the society evolved to like eating sugar as the last meal of the day. Is it rooted more in hunter-gatherer lifestyle or in, say, rennaissance onwards lifestyle from after the Old World discovered sugarcane in the caribbean? I know there was an insane effort to use sugar in as many foods as possible, so as to make good on the investments into the expeditions and colonisation projects there.

    • Swordgeek@lemmy.ca
      51·
      13 hours ago

      If you come in asking a question and then tell everyone who disagrees with your expected answer that they’re wrong, you’re acting in bad faith.