What are the disadvantages of eating late-night snacks frequently?

Staying up late and all night seem to have become an indispensable habit in modern people's lives, and people often feel hungry when staying up late, so it is inevitable to prepare some midnight snacks. Although doing so can meet temporary needs, it will be extremely harmful to your health in the long run. So what kind of harm will it cause? The editor will explain it in detail below.

1. Easy to produce stones. The peak period of calcium excretion in the human body is usually 4 to 5 hours after a meal. If you eat a late night snack, when the peak period of calcium excretion arrives, you have already gone to bed and the urine will be retained in the ureters, urethra and other urinary tracts, and cannot be excreted from the body in time, causing the calcium in the urine to continue to increase, which is easily deposited to form small crystals, and gradually expand to form stones. If you often like to eat midnight snacks and eat high-fat foods, it is easy to cause a sudden increase in blood lipids.

2. The nutrients in midnight snacks are difficult to consume. Eating a lot of high-protein foods such as meat, eggs, milk, etc. for midnight snacks will increase the amount of calcium in the urine, reduce calcium storage in the body, and induce rickets in children, myopia in adolescents, and osteoporosis in middle-aged and elderly people. Moreover, if too much protein is consumed, the body cannot absorb it and it will be retained in the intestines, where it will deteriorate and produce toxins such as ammonia and hydrogen sulfide, which will irritate the intestinal wall and induce cancer.

3. Cholesterol increases significantly. The human body's blood often maintains a high fat content at night. Eating too much at night, or eating frequently and repeatedly, will cause the liver to synthesize a significant increase in blood cholesterol and stimulate the liver to produce more low-density lipoprotein. Carrying too much cholesterol to the arterial walls and accumulating there (including the penile arteries) is also one of the causes of atherosclerosis, coronary heart disease and impotence.

In short, eating late-night snacks frequently is very unhealthy, and the adverse effects it brings to yourself over time are quite serious. The editor here would like to strongly remind everyone to avoid eating too much food at night as much as possible. When you are hungry, you can choose to eat a small amount of easily digestible food to reduce the harm to your health.