How to Eating carbohydrates at night could help you lose fat, according to a study

One of the biggest fears in the fitness world has been the consumption of carbohydrates at night, but today we know that it is a completely false statement and that it has no scientific basis. For a long time it was thought that if you consumed carbohydrates at night, they would be stored as fat and not as glycogen because the body wanted to store that amount of calories in the most efficient way possible, which is as fat. Carbohydrates (especially those found in potatoes, rice, pasta, etc.) are chains of glucose (the sugar we have in our blood) that, passing through the digestive tract, are divided and pass into the blood and can be stored three ways: muscle glycogen liver glycogen Fat Carbohydrates will be stored in one way or another depending mainly on two factors, which are the caloric content that we have ingested throughout the day and our muscle and liver glycogen reserves. If we are sedentary people, who do not spend muscle glycogen and on top of that we consume a lot of carbohydrates at night, these will be stored as body fat, but not because we have consumed them at dinner, but because we are caloric surplus and that surplus, by not performing exercise does not aim to gain muscle mass, but to gain body fat. On the other hand, if we are people who exercise and consume a portion of carbohydrates proportional to what we need to gain muscle mass or lose body fat, these carbohydrates will not make us fat. What the study says The study collected 78 people and put them on a diet. That is, the number of calories they consumed was less than those they ingested. One of the two groups included most carbohydrates in the evening and the other group in the morning. At the end of 180 days, it was observed that a high carbohydrate intake at night led to faster fat loss, so including carbohydrates at night could be a good strategy for fat loss. This could be for several reasons: If you train in the morning, eating carbohydrates at night will make you perform better the next day Carbohydrates and secreted insulin have an analgesic effect and make us sleep better, something essential if we want to lose fat More awareness of what we eat throughout the day because knowing that we are going to eat more at night makes us reduce caloric intake in the morning Fat loss vs health Here we have to point out that losing body fat does not make eating more carbohydrates at night healthier, it could even be the opposite. Our body is not efficient at metabolizing carbohydrates at night because for thousands of years food intake at night was almost nil, and that has been recorded in our DNA. When we eat carbohydrates at night, there is a higher concentration of glucose and insulin, which has been related to future cardio metabolic diseases. Despite this, we do not have studies that relate it to athletes, who have a greater tolerance to carbohydrates and greater sensitivity to insulin. In Vitória | How to understand what shoelaces mean and what they mean to us In Vitória | Three things that are preventing you from losing body fat without realizing it