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Eat Dinner


Eat Dinner

You should eat a healthy dinner at the right time because it will hold off any late night junk food cravings. Without food in your system, stress hormones will kick in to keep you going but at a high cost because you will be exhausted later. Eating a healthy dinner will help you maintain your weight. When you make a habit of missing meals, your body starts conserving calories and your metabolism will begin to slow down.

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Some tips on eating a quick and healthy dinner:

Try to stay away from coffee and candy. Neither one will give you sustained energy. If you need to have your coffee, opt for decaf coffee.

For sandwiches, burritos, and pizza, choose either cheese or meat, but not both. You will cut down on your calorie intake if you follow this.

Dinner time in the average home has slipped to just before 8pm because of longer working hours and changing lifestyles.

A survey has revealed that the average family sits down for their evening meal at 7.47pm.

This is two hours later than ten years ago, when families gathered around the dinner table as early as 5.30pm.

The poll of 1,500 people found that nearly 58 per cent of adults blame today's increasingly busy lifestyles for the later eating times.

Try to eat dinner no later than 7 pm.

Your dinner needs to be lighter than lunch, but just as nutritious and balanced. Do not skip this meal. It keeps your system ticking for the next twelve hours or so. Save some time by cooking more than one meal at a time and refrigerate your extra meals for another day. If you have an hour to make something special, double the recipe so you'll have enough to refrigerate or freeze for another dinner!

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