Why you shouldn't eat before bed

Ever struggled to sleep after having a late night snack or quick meal? 🤔
If that is you then this might be the tip for you! -
For hundreds of years, we ate only one big meal - around noon
If eating a large meal and crashing at the end of the day seems inevitable, it’s helpful to remember that for hundreds of years, Westerners ate only one large meal a day - typically right in the middle of the day.
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The Romans, for example, dined only once, usually around noon. In colonial America, one main meal was served in the middle of the day.
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Europeans, too, noshed almost exclusively at noon, when the most natural light was available for cooking, with the exception of farmers and laborers, who woke up early and typically grabbed a snack of something leftover from the day’s previous meal.
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Most Westerners owe breakfast to the long and early work hours of the Industrial Revolution.
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Heavy laborers needed a morning snack to fuel them for the daily grind. Factory workers couldn’t go home in the middle of the day, so between that morning meal and their supper at home, workers took snack breaks at the canteens and food carts that began popping up outside factories during this time.
Here, lunch may have been born.
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As the Industrial Revolution ended, work in heavy labour gave way to office jobs (hello, 9-5!), the middle class emerged, and at-home evening meal became an American tradition and a marker of social status.
That evening meal is now our biggest, heaviest tradition.