Health Tip: The Effect of Eating a Heavy Meal when You are Overweight

When you are young and slim, you can eat what you want and your normal activity level will burn the calories with no problem.

When you get older, your metabolism slows down and if your activity level does not change, you will gain weight.

When you are more than 10 kilos overweight, your body seems to have a harder time digesting the food from a heavy meal, and keeping your brain going at full capacity. So you begin to get tired, you yawn a lot. In extreme cases, people fall asleep. This is a bad time to be driving a car or operating machinery, such as a lawn mower.

In short, rest when you are tired, don't try to do something that requires your brain. Slim people don't have this problem. The problem is with obese persons. With extremely obese people, this condition is called "narcolepsy". Therefor, have light meals every time so that you can keep your brain active.

Source: Douglas