We suspected it for a while, and now it’s confirmed: no matter how much you might enjoy a midnight snack, eating late at night is bad for you. A new study by Harvard Medical School investigators at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, US, has found that eating late at night increases hunger, reduce calories burning and is actually capable of changing the metabolism of adults who are overweight or obese, increasing our body fat. Some 42 per cent of adults in the US are considered to be obese and, as a result, at risk of chronic diseases such as diabetes, cancer and other condi…