When You Eat & Weight Link

When you eat might be as important as what you eat when it comes to losing weight.

This isn't good news for those of us that work nighttime shifts, the light your exposed to could be causing you to eat at the wrong time.

A new study, using mice, found that when they were exposed to dim lights at night they gained more weight. Researchers found that when the mice were exposed to the night light they also tended to eat late at night. Even though they ate the same amount of food and had the same daily activity levels as the other mice, the mice exposed to the night lights gained more weight.

So, even though they didn't eat any more than the other mice and they exercised the same, for some reason these researchers can't fully explain, eating later at night because of the nightlights caused the mice to pack on the pounds.

Experts think the same might be happening to us, especially if working night shifts. And in the past weight gain from prolonged computer or television use at night was blamed on the lack of activity, but it might just be the lights they expose you to at night causes you to eat at the wrong time.