Skipping dinner is not good for metabolic health.
Whether skipping dinner is good for health is currently controversial. However, mainstream nutritional opinion still supports eating dinner, and the calorie percentages for breakfast, lunch, and dinner should ideally be 20%, 40%, and 40%; or 30%, 40%, and 30%. As you can see from these sets of data, not only is it recommended to eat dinner, but it is also important that dinner be eaten well and in an amount that is not too different from the amount recommended for lunch.
If you do not eat dinner, it means that nearly 20 hours of the day people are in a fasting state, the body’s energy is not supplied for a long time, it is necessary to mobilize the body’s reserves of fat or glycogen for energy supply. The liver is in the process of constantly converting sugar into fat after breakfast and dinner, and constantly converting fat into sugar in the process of fasting, the burden is very heavy.
At the same time, weaker people or children are very susceptible to hypoglycemia and other energy deficiencies. Diabetic patients are also prone to violent fluctuations in blood sugar aggravate the condition.
In summary, skipping dinner is not conducive to metabolic health, three meals should be eaten regularly.