OBC Food Rules Day 54: "Breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, dinner like a pauper"

Eating a big meal late in the day sounds unhealthy, though in fact science isn't conclusive.  Some research suggests that eating close to bedtime elevates triglyceride levels in the blood, a marker for heart disease that is also implicated in your weight gain.  Also, the more physically active you are after a meal, the more of the energy in that meal your muscles will burn before your body stores it as fat.  But some researches believe a calorie is a calorie, no matter what time of day it is consumed.  Even if this is true, however, front-loading your eating in the early part of the day will probably result in fewer total calories consumed, since people are generally less hungry in the morning.  A related adage:  "After lunch, sleep awhile; after dinner, walk a mile."