Midnight munchies: Do you suffer from night eating syndrome?

What is often simply down to bad habits may also be an indication of night eating syndrome (NES). — dpa

Buttered popcorn and candy at the cinema late in the evening. Takeaway fish and chips on the way home from a party at night. Almost everyone indulges in some nighttime noshing now and then.

An estimated 1.5 million people in Germany alone even wake up during the night to cop some munchies, according to Dr Martin Teufel, director of the Clinic for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy at Essen University Hospital and former president of the German Society on Eating Disorders (DGESS).