{"id":651505,"date":"2026-10-11T13:12:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T13:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/651505\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T13:12:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T13:12:14","slug":"eating-just-before-bed-late-night-snacking-might-be-raising-your-risk-of-fatty-liver-disease-study-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/651505\/","title":{"rendered":"\u200bEating just before bed? Late-night snacking might be raising your risk of fatty liver disease, study warns\u200b"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">The scientists analyzed dietary habits and health data from three major long-running studies: the Nurses\u2019 Health Study, its sequel, and the Health Professionals Follow-up Study. In total, researchers tracked nearly 200,000 people for a median of 16 years. They found 4,477 cases of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD, often called fatty liver) and 312 cases of cirrhosis.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">After factoring in tons of variables like age, body mass, calories, diabetes, cholesterol, exercise, smoking, alcohol, and overall diet quality, late-night eating still stood out as a risk factor. People who reported eating late regularly had a 31% higher relative risk of MASLD and a 28% higher risk for cirrhosis compared to those who didn\u2019t eat late.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">However, remember, these are relative risk numbers, not the actual odds for any one person. Plus, the study relied on self-reported eating and diagnoses, so more research is needed to prove that shifting meal times can actually prevent these diseases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The scientists analyzed dietary habits and health data from three major long-running studies: the Nurses\u2019 Health Study, its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":651506,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[276214,276213,103,61,60,110862,97784,56202,7108,276215],"class_list":["post-651505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-dinner-before-bed","tag-fatty-liver-disease-risk","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-late-night-eating","tag-late-night-snacking","tag-liver-health","tag-meal-timing","tag-sleep-habits-and-diet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/651506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}