In the article “Why Eating Late At Night Might Be Bad For You” the author, A.
Pawlowski, explains how eating when you should be sleeping, over a long period of time, may disrupt learning and memory. In general 28% of Americans either eat dinner late at night or wake up in the middle of the night to eat, although there are many negative affects of doing this action. Christopher Cowell, a professor of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences at the
University of California, performed an experiment on mice. There were two different groups of mice, Group 1 ate a normal meal and slept at their normal time, but Group 2 could only
“munch” on food during their normal sleeping time, both groups of mice received the same amount of sleep and food. The mice took a learning tested, this included associating a tone with shock. It turned out that the mice who ate when they should have been sleeping were troubled when they had to remember what they learned, they also had a hard time recognizing a new object, and also showed major signs of change in their hippocampus, a brain region involved in learning and memory. The continuous sleepwake cycle is good for your health, eating late or waking and eating can increase the risk of problems in your hippocampus. I believe that this statement is true. You should always work around the vital things in life. No human can go over 3 weeks of no food without dying of starvation, but no human has lasted no longer than eleven days without
