Here's when your body burns the most calories

A serious mismatch in the time when calories are consumed and the time when most of them are burned could prompt the body to make decisions that aren’t necessarily healthy. — TNS

Next time you stagger into a Waffle House in the wee hours of the morning and order the Texas sausage egg & cheese melt (1,040 calories), consider this new research finding: At roughly that hour, the most basic operations of the human body throttle back their caloric needs by about 10%, compared to the rate at which they will burn calories in late afternoon or early evening.

Maybe you’d prefer to come back around dinner time.