European and International Conference on Obesity (ECOICO 2020).The study found that people who consume most of their calories in the evening tend to consume more of them and have a lower quality diet.The study’s aim was to explore the connection between the evening consumption of calories — the measure of energy intake (EI) — and diet quality.
Judith Baird, a researcher from the Nutrition Innovation Centre for Food and Health at Ulster University in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, led the study.Previous studies have found that hunger follows a daily rhythm and that this rhythm is, in some ways, not what people might expect.