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Avoid carbs after dinner?
thissucks Fri Jul 22, 2011 12:34 pm
I've seen a couple different people say this, what is the reasoning?
I get ravenously hungry at night and tend to eat quite a bit, although I try to stop eating about 2-3 hours before sleep. For myself, that usually means a bowl of oatmeal and fruit around 9 PM, with bedtime around 11:30 or midnight.
I get ravenously hungry at night and tend to eat quite a bit, although I try to stop eating about 2-3 hours before sleep. For myself, that usually means a bowl of oatmeal and fruit around 9 PM, with bedtime around 11:30 or midnight.
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Re: Avoid carbs after dinner?
abc123 Fri Jul 22, 2011 1:25 pm
thissucks wrote:I've seen a couple different people say this, what is the reasoning?
I get ravenously hungry at night and tend to eat quite a bit, although I try to stop eating about 2-3 hours before sleep. For myself, that usually means a bowl of oatmeal and fruit around 9 PM, with bedtime around 11:30 or midnight.
There is no reason. It is a pseudoscience suggestion.
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Re: Avoid carbs after dinner?
scottyc33 Fri Jul 22, 2011 1:26 pm
abc123 wrote:thissucks wrote:I've seen a couple different people say this, what is the reasoning?
I get ravenously hungry at night and tend to eat quite a bit, although I try to stop eating about 2-3 hours before sleep. For myself, that usually means a bowl of oatmeal and fruit around 9 PM, with bedtime around 11:30 or midnight.
There is no reason. It is a pseudoscience suggestion.
Agreed.
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Re: Avoid carbs after dinner?
ViolatedBird Fri Jul 22, 2011 2:24 pm
I don't know about "after dinner," but regarding carb ingestion and sleep:
"If you eat any carbs and protein within 4 hours of sleep you will never see the prolactin surge because any spike in insulin turns off this critical release." -- Dr. Jack Kruse M.D., Neurosurgeon, in a blog post about sleep.
"If you eat any carbs and protein within 4 hours of sleep you will never see the prolactin surge because any spike in insulin turns off this critical release." -- Dr. Jack Kruse M.D., Neurosurgeon, in a blog post about sleep.
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Re: Avoid carbs after dinner?
mphatesmpb Fri Jul 22, 2011 2:52 pm
Here's a study showing that having a serving of carbohydrates before bed is helpful in replenishing glycogen stores in the brain. Presumably, glycogen would be replenished in other tissues as well.
http://news.stanford.edu/pr/96/960116sleep.html
http://news.stanford.edu/pr/96/960116sleep.html
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