Showing posts with label Nutrition. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nutrition. Show all posts

1.5% of world population suffers from night eating syndrome

Night eating syndrome: waking up in the middle of the night and grabbing a byte from the fridge. People who have this "new disease" suffers from stress and sleeping disorders, waking up between three and four times by night, with an uncontrollable need of eating caused by a drop of melatonin and leptin, two hormones linked to the good sleep and appetite, and an increment of his levels of cortisol, a hormone related to stress.

What's the difference between diet and light?

Light is synonymous of low calories -yogurts and cheeses, for example-; while diet products are those that have suffered a modification in their's composition. They may not have salt or sugar, for example, but the caloric content it's the same. A bread could be diet because it has bran or wholemeal. But it wouldn't be light.