A depressing new study shows that eating late at night can alter your metabolism and cause you to store more fat.

Eating later in the day may have an effect on our biological management of
weight in three ways, according to a recent study: calorie expenditure,
appetite, and fat storage.
With hundreds of millions of people affected by obesity around the world,
this is an important discovery into how the risk of getting obese can be
minimized in a relatively easy way – by eating our meals a few hours sooner.
Researchers aimed to further investigate the association between meal
timing and weight increase and to tease out the biological underpinnings
for this association, which had been suggested by previous studies.