{"id":798811,"date":"2026-10-11T04:52:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T04:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/798811\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T04:52:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T04:52:17","slug":"eating-before-bed-increases-risk-of-fatty-liver-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/798811\/","title":{"rendered":"Eating before bed increases risk of fatty liver disease"},"content":{"rendered":"

Late night snacking may increase the risk of developing liver disease, a study has warned.<\/p>\n

Research found that people who eat late at night could be up to 30 per cent more likely to develop fatty liver disease or cirrhosis.<\/p>\n

Eating late in the evening or overnight has previously been linked to an increased risk of heart disease or obesity, but new research set out to see whether the liver was also affected.<\/p>\n

Experts looked at data on around 200,000 people based in the US, including their eating habits and whether they developed liver disease.<\/p>\n

It defined late-night eating as consuming food after dinner<\/a> or after bedtime.<\/p>\n

Liver \u2018in tune\u2019 with circadian rhythms<\/p>\n

The results revealed that there was a 20 to 30 per cent increase in all forms of liver disease among those who reported eating late, compared with those who did not.<\/p>\n

In particular, they had a higher risk of fat building up in the liver, which is called metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease, or cirrhosis, a chronic condition where healthy liver tissue is permanently damaged or scarred.<\/p>\n

Dr Robert Wilechansky, the lead author of the review, from the Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU), said: \u201cWe know the liver is very much in tune with the body\u2019s circadian rhythms.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo we\u2019re interested in changing the timing of eating<\/a> in a way that could make a difference in health, without changing the composition of what people eat.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said the effect on the liver had been \u201chinted at\u201d, but that the review was \u201camong the first long-term analyses to explicitly draw the connection to fatty liver disease\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Late night snacking may increase the risk of developing liver disease, a study has warned. Research found that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":798812,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[59,102,4412,50,4419,5438,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-798811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-gb","tag-health","tag-liver-disease","tag-news","tag-scientific-research","tag-standard","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/798812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}