After 8 pm, our body starts to idle. Its energy expenditure decreases and its digestive secretions become more rare. There is no point in stuffing him with food that he will not know how to do except store it.

Dr. Patricia Lopez-Legarrea, from the Autonomous University of Chile, has just provided irrefutable proof. His study , conducted among 5,500 people, shows that dinner before this fateful schedule avoids unnecessary weight gain.

In a strictly identical diet, those who eat earlier have a lower body weight than others. Their body mass index (BMI) is one point lower, a difference of at least three kilograms for a woman measuring 1 meter 65.

The biological clock, a real conductor

The person in charge would be our biological clock which orchestrates the daily rhythm of the body. Like a metronome, it synchronizes all biological functions with the external environment, "says Dr. Jacob Liberman, author of Light Medicine of the Future (Ed. The Book Mail).

Located in the brain, at the level of the hypothalamus, it modulates the hormonal secretions and gives the tempo to the other clocks of the body, in particular those lodged in the adipose tissue which regulates tolerance to the glucose. To upset them by dining too late is reflected on the scales.

5 cm less than waist

People who supper before 8 pm do not necessarily have more tapered thighs, but they accumulate little abdominal fat. As a result, their waist is 5 cm shorter than the late diners.

To increase profit, it is better to leave your car in the garage. According to Professor Takami Sugiyama, one hour less driving per day makes an extra 1.5 cm gain on the belt. Too bad to miss!