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Starving Before Bed? Try These 7 Nutritionist-Approved Snacks.

There is a laundry list of dos and don’ts for losing weight. There’s always a flavor of the month or fad diet, and you would be forgiven for being confused. A lot of diets even contradict each other.

Take Atkins: eat fats and protein but no carbs.

But straight eating clean: get in those complex carbs, veggies, and protein.

And don’t get me started on keto.

Sure, depending on your body type, blood type, etc, more than one or all of these diets could work. But the one thing these all have in common? Don’t eat before bed! Gasp!

But I’m hungry!

Me too. So what’s the deal? Do you chug a glass full of water to fill your stomach and suffer through a Netflix program until you fall asleep? Or do you have a snack?

Buzzfeed may have the answer. They recently checked in with “registered dietician Abby Langer and Despina Hyde, a diabetes expert at NYU Langone Weight Management Program, to find out.”

Apparently, it is okay to eat before bed! Whew…what a relief. It’s just what you eat that counts. Having a bucket of KFC is probably not a good idea. But fruit, crackers, or avocado toast (yum) could get you the nutrients you need PLUS settle that roaring stomach.

“Sure, your metabolic rate slows down a bit, but it doesn’t stop, says Langer. Yes, when it comes to weight management, it’s better to eat your biggest meals around the time of day you’re most active, but in general, your total calories matter more than the timing. And a reasonable snack that satisfies your hunger before bed isn’t enough to derail your healthy eating efforts.”

But I’m hungry every night before bed

If this is a consistent issue, chances are you’re not eating enough calories during the day. Also, check out your protein intake. If you’re eating a ton of carbs and fatty foods, this can cause your body to burn off energy too quickly, leaving nothing in your reserve while converting those calories to fat. Yuck. 

“Avoid a too-big meal, since your body will have to work harder to digest, which might actually keep you awake. But if your schedule leaves you with no choice but to eat dinner close to bedtime, Hyde suggests something that’s about 40% veggies, 40% carbs, and 20% protein.”

So what types of snacks are good to eat at night?

High fiber Cereal

Who doesn’t love Babybel?

 

Avocado or hard-boiled egg toast

 

Bananas with peanut butter

 

Greek yogurt with granola or fruit (or both!)

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special k granola, strawberry activia, and almonds

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A simple cup of cottage cheese with fruit, nuts, or crackers

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Snack break #cottagecheese #triscuits

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Fruit and nuts are perfect for a sweet craving

 

So no matter the diet, remember: it is important to space out meals, get the proper caloric intake, and eat (healthily) when hungry at night!

After all, no one likes a cranky Netflix partner.

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A Teen Went Blind After Eating a Diet of French Fries and White Bread for Years

No one really warns you that eating only crappy food could cost you one of your five precious senses.

The teen – who, sadly, was living with parents and not on the street – had subsisted on fries, Pringles, white bread, and the occasional slice of processed ham for years. Not surprisingly, he started experiencing medical issues at the age of 14.

His parents brought him to the doctor, who found that his hearing problems were due to poor vitamin intake.

“His diet was essentially a portion of chips from the local fish and chip shop every day. He also used to snack on crisps – Pringles – and sometimes slices of white bread and occasional slices of ham, and not really any fruit and vegetables.”

He was diagnosed with a vitamin B12 deficiency. B12 is found in fish, meat, dairy, and eggs, and it is essential for proper brain function, forming red blood cells and new DNA, proteins, hormones, and fat. Doctors provided him with supplements, but recommended a diet change.

Eventually, they conceded that he was more than just a “fussy eater” and diagnosed an eating disorder called Arfid – avoidant restrictive food intake disorder. The disorder causes people to limit their food based on appearance, texture, presentation, taste, or past negative experience. People who suffer from Arfid often also have anxiety and will limit their food to the point that it affects their health, without intervention.

At 17, he returned to the doctor complaining of vision loss, and admitted he had quit taking his supplements. His original doctor said, “He had blind spots right in the middle of his vision. That means he can’t drive and would find it really difficult to read, watch TV, or discern faces.”

His eyesight had deteriorated quickly and was past the point of recovering through treatment. According to his mother, he showed no other obvious signs of poor health along the way. “He has always been skinny so we had no weight concerns. You hear about junk food and obesity all the time – but he was as thin as a rake.”

The boy was severely malnourished, suffering a catastrophic loss of minerals from his bones and has been referred to mental health services to treat his eating disorder.

For her part, his mother blames the doctors.

“They said it was all in his head. By the time they realised what was wrong it was too late to save his sight. The whole ordeal has been very traumatic. I want to scream about what we have gone through.”

I mean, now I want to scream about parents who don’t realize that diet could cause problems for a child in their care, so I guess we’re all traumatized here.

I guess I can still see, at least.

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16 Awful People Talk About Serving Vegans Meat and They’re Not Sorry

I’m TOTALLY against pretty much everything that these people are admitting to in these secrets. Because, yes, vegans and vegetarians can be a bit pretentious when it comes to their lifestyle choice. But they trying to LITERALLY not eat another animal’s flesh. Or byproducts of that animal. That’s a good thing.

Still, meat eaters (especially these assholes) have had enough and are taking matters into their own hands by serving meat in their dishes.

Get ready to meet some horrible people!

1. Yeah, how dare he…

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2. She hasn’t noticed but she knows? Whaaa….

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3. How does that work?!

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4. Yeah, you’re dumb for wanting to be health and not kill things to eat them!

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5. Well, this is gonna happen sometime…

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6. Yeah, this will last…

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7. So… why? Do you not like her?

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8. You daredevil!

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9. Haha lol… fart…

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10. Starting to feel guilty? Hmmm…

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11. I mean, butter isn’t that bad, but meat? Come on…

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12. Well, ketchup covered pasta is pretty much a crime against food, so…

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13. Isn’t it harder to cook meat than put together a bunch of veggies?

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14. Yes… never be rude to assholes. You never know what’s going to happen…

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15. Okay, not mad at this…

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16. Oh, grow up!

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Have a story about being an awful human being and tricking people into eating ACTUAL flesh when they don’t want to?

Well, share those stories in the comments! ?

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12 Funny Memes About Losing Weight

Trying to diet? Yep, a lot of us have been there.

All you think about is food. You’re thinking about food right now, aren’t you?

Well, feast on these tasty memes and laugh until you cry. That’ll burn some calories!

1. WHO LEFT THIS HERE?!?

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2. This is sustainable, yeah?

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3. Bread cat looks DELISH!

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4. You’re going the wrong way!

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5. Yes, I think it is…

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6. With friends like these…

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7. Come on… it’s been FOREVER!

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8. Just stay home…

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9. Enhhhhh….

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10. I’m just better than everybody else

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11. Unfollow 4 lyfe!

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12. That’s healthy, right?

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So, that probably wasn’t as satisfying as knocking out a whole bag of potato chips, but we’ve got plenty more where that came from?

Which did you like the best? Let us know in the comments!

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13 Funny Memes About Food That Might Fill You up with Laughs

Ice cream? Cake? Pie? Hamburgers? Pizza? LOTS of cheese?

We really shouldn’t have ANY of those things. And we know that.

But what we can have A LOT of are tasty, delicious memes.

Enjoy!

1. Well… define “abs”

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2. I wish I could quit you!

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3. Umm….

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4. F to the U to the C…

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5. Why is time moving so slow?!?

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6. Millionaire!

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7. Legit planning

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8. Hey hey! Look at those legs!

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9. Couldn’t be all these cookies…

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10. The weekend doesn’t count, right?

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11. Why do you hate me?

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12. I hate technology…

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13. Hey, it was just there staring at me NOT being eaten, so…

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What did you eat up?

Let us know in the comments!

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In medieval times, all fruit…

In medieval times, all fruit and vegetables were cooked as it was believed that raw fruit and vegetables caused disease. One book from 1500 even warns: “Beware of green salads and raw fruits, for they will make your master sick”.

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This Is Why You Shouldn’t Drink Coffee Before Breakfast

This is not good news…for me at least…

People love to drink coffee for breakfast, if internet memes and novelty mugs are any indications. But while you may feel like a zombie until you’ve had your morning coffee, you may want to eat a bagel or something first. It’s really not the best idea to drink it on an empty stomach, Reader’s Digest reports.

Coffee has a number of benefits, but it can have negative effects as well, particularly if you drink it before breakfast. First, it can increase your level of stress.

“Drinking coffee on an empty stomach, or early in the morning before you’ve had breakfast, can increase the level of cortisol in your body,” Dr. Nikola Djordjevic told the outlet.

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Cortisol is the hormone responsible for regulating your stress response, immune response, and metabolism. Your body begins producing cortisol when you wake up in the morning, and if you drink coffee while your cortisol levels are peaking, you may subject your body to even more stress.

Second, coffee can irritate your stomach and make your gut more acidic overall, and when you have no food in your stomach, there’s nothing to help absorb the coffee. The overproduction of gastric acid leads to other side effects, like heartburn. It can even affect your mental health by causing mood swings, jitters, shaking, and other withdrawal symptoms (if you cut your caffeine). Some studies have even linked gastric acid to anxiety and depression.

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You don’t have to give up your precious morning coffee, though. All of these effects can be curbed by simply eating breakfast before you take your first sip.

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Take a Look at These Photos of What Kids Eating Around the World

What do kids around the globe eat? I’m assuming that a lot of countries have way more balanced and healthy diets than the United States, but you just never know.

That is why this project from photographer Gregg Segal is so interesting. Segal spent three years in nine different countries documenting what kids eat around the globe on a daily basis. The information is fascinating and the photos are beautiful as well.

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Daily Bread is all set to go to press! Published by Powerhouse Books, it’ll be released in May. For the cover, I chose this portrait of Altaf, a 6 yr old from a small village on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur. Altaf’s favorite food is the chicken and beef satay his father makes and sells at his own stand. It’s seasoned with ginger and herbs, roasted over charcoal and served with cold cucumber. Altaf eats any “tasteful” food (made with a lot of ingredients and flavors) and likes raw, leafy greens like Ulam-Ulam, a salad eaten with anchovies, cincalok (condiment made from fermented krill) and plenty of sambal (hot sauce). #dailybread #whatkidseat #powerhousebooks #foodculture #foodaroundtheworld #diet

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Buy Segal’s book, Daily Bread: What Kids Eat Around the World, HERE and take a look at these great photos.

1. USA

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Prince, photographed in 2016 for Daily Bread. When he was 12, Prince and his family left St. James Montego Bay for the U.S. His parents decided life in Jamaica was too dangerous after Prince’s cousin was gunned down at the little neighborhood market his family owned. Prince misses the green open space of his family farm and the animals they raised: goats, chickens, geese, rabbits, pigs and cows. They grew and harvested corn, yams, coconut, oranges, apples, pears, ackee and breadfruit – and back then his diet was much better than it is now. Prince misses his dad, too, who’s stuck in Montego Bay driving a cab. He prays he’ll get his papers and come to America. #dailybread #powerhousebooks #culture #americandream #whatkidseat #diet #foodaroundtheworld #jamaicanculture

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2. Mexico

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Jesus, photographed in 2016 for Daily Bread. Jesus was raised by his mom, who was a teenager when she left her family and home in Michoacán, Mexico and made her way to Los Angeles. Jesus, his mom and his 2 older sisters shared a one-bedroom apartment south of downtown infested with roaches and rodents. Jesus saw little of his dad whom they discovered had another family. The only meal Jesus ate most days was dinner. His 1 hour commute to school didn’t leave time for breakfast and the school lunch was so unappetizing, a piece of fruit was all he could stomach. Mom made chicken and rice most nights. On special occasions she’d make Jesus’ favorite: tamales with red chile sauce. Growing up, Jesus was aware there were people worse off than him. He joined a student organization to feed the homeless and volunteered with @peaceoverviolence a non-profit helping victims of domestic abuse. Jesus just finished his sophomore year @harvard, with a double major of applied mathematics and psychology. Jesus has had more opportunities than he could ever have imagined, though knows there are obstacles ahead. @Erin cc2la thank you. #dailybread #whatkidseat #schoollunch #mom #successstory #proud #humbling

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3. Indigenous Brazil

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One more from Brazil. Ayme has been raised on a mostly indigenous diet. Her dad is a forest engineer and nutritionist and her mom @anaboquadi researches the culinary and medicinal uses of foods from the Cerrado – and has a great little vegan restaurant, Buriti Zen in Brasilia (for all you locals). Try the walnut cassava moqueca and cauliflower soufflé with cupuaçu cream. Ayme’s earliest memory of food is her mama’s milk. Thinking of this makes her want to return to that time and nurse again. Açaí is Ayme’s favorite food and part of her heritage; her great grandmother was an açaí merchant who sold her berries at Ver-o-peso Market in Belém. From working on Daily Bread, Ayme realized that she eats many things that other kids don’t – like lots of fresh veggies. #dailybread #powerhousebooks #plantprotein #whatkidseat #culture #kids #eatyourgreens #diet #indigenous #buriti #buritizen

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4. Posh Brazil

5. Amazonian Brazil

6. Poor Brazil

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Thayla, Brasilia, 2018. Most poor kids in Brasil attend school to be able to eat, but the government has failed to provide adequate school lunches, offering little more than milk and crackers or canned beans. Thayla wishes she had more flavors in her diet and could afford to eat feijoada. If she had enough money, she’d buy clothes for the street kids who are worse off than her. Someday, she’d like to be a teacher. In Brazil, corporate food is finding ways to profit from the poorest consumers, reaching ever more remote places. Nestle hires micro-entrepreneurs, mom and pops who trundle thru villages with carts selling cheap processed snacks. A generation ago, Brazil’s poor were underfed. Today, 50% of the population is overweight. The UN should be focused not only at calorie intake but nutrient. #dailybread #powerhousebooks #whatkidseat #diet #nutrition #kids #brazil #schoollunch

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7. Junk Food USA

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Can you guess what percent of our calories come from vegetables in the US? Less than 1%! Looking at all of the kids’ food I photographed, not just in the US, but all over the world, greens were consistently absent. Parents often say, “My kid won’t eat vegetables.” They throw up their hands. “I put healthy food in front of them, but they only like pizza.” You can’t force kids to eat healthy foods, but if you give them the choice, they’ll choose salt, fat, and sugar over leafy greens because salt, fat, and sugar appeal to our deepest, primal cravings stretching back to our caveman days! If you don’t introduce whipped cream Frappuccinos, sautéed spinach with a little butter and salt isn’t bad. #dailybread #eatyourgreens #whatkidseat #parenting #primalcravings #diet #powerhousebooks

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8. Italy

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12 year old Amelia from Catania, Sicily, surrounded by her vibrantly colorful diet: the green of beans and zucchini, red of cherry tomatoes, yellow of peppers, purple of radicchio, orange of melon, etc. Outside of a single pizza box, there’s no packaging in Amelia’s week of meals. Everything’s homemade, which is as pleasing to the eye as it is easy on the environment! Daily Bread is a finalist for the 2018 Food Sustainability Media Award announced next week in Milan. All finalists have been put forward for the Best of the Web Award. The winner is chosen by the public. Check out finalists here: www.goodfoodmediaaward.com/finalists/2018/ #dailybread #goodfoodmediaaward #homemade #lesswaste #colorfulfood #regenerativeagriculture

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9. India

10. No processed foods

11. Dubai

12. Senegal and Mumbai

13. Kuala Lumpur

14. Senegal

15. The photographer’s son, Hank

What a wonderful project!

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