Eating late at night 'makes you fat'

KEY

Question 1

a) TRUE “The study suggests that eating light meals at night can put you on weight.”

b) TRUE “night shift workers are more likely to suffer obesity and metabolic syndrome, a combination of diabetes, high blood pressure and obesity.”

c) FALSE “less sleep can lead to weight gain in healthy people.”

d) TRUE “ A relatively modest shift in food consumption into what is normally the rest period for mice can favour energy storage”

Question 2

a) The people who are at risk of suffering form obesity are not only those who have sleeping problems but also those who have a night-eating disorder and those who work the night shift.

b) The study has concluded that mice eating at night, and not necessarily more calories, are more likely to gain weight as it is a matter of when they eat and not how much they eat.

Question 3

a)       gain

b)       great/greater

c)       shift

Question 4

            a) The effect in mice was said to be/to have been similar to night-eating syndrome in humans.

b) The results could explain why night shift workers will probably suffer obesity and metabolic syndrome.

c) Georgios Paschos said that a relatively modest shift in food consumption into what was normally the rest period for mice could favour energy storage. Our mice had become obese without consuming more calories