Effects of Late Night Meals on Diabetes Risk: Insights from Specialist Dr. M Ikhsan Mokoagow, M.Med.Sci, Sp. PD, Subsp. EMD, FINASIM

MERAHPUTIH I JAKARTA – Specialist Doctor from the Association of Indonesian Internal Medicine Specialists (PAPDI) Dr. M Ikhsan Mokoagow, M.Med.Sci, Sp. PD, Subsp. EMD, FINASIM said that people who often stay up late need to pay attention to their diet so they don’t get diabetes.

“When people stay up late, they will eat more, but at night there is not much activity to do. “In the long term, lifestyle changes like this can cause a person to develop diabetes more easily,” said Ikhsan in an online interview from Jakarta, as reported by Antara, Monday (13/11).

He said that workers who often stay up late or come on a night schedule certainly need food intake for work so they will have an extra meal schedule or eat snacks while working.

However, according to him, nighttime activities at a workplace are not as busy as during the day, so workers who come in often spend their time sitting around.

Excessive food intake, especially carbohydrates, combined with the absence of strenuous activities can ultimately trigger diabetes due to the buildup of sugar.

In an exclusive media interview held by the Pondok Indah Group Hospital, the subspecialist doctor in metabolic endocrinology and diabetes stated that the risk of diabetes is often associated with disruption of the body’s metabolism due to staying up late because this activity reduces the production of the hormone melatonin which regulates sleepiness.

Therefore, he advises people who are overweight and/or have hereditary diabetes to pay attention to their lifestyle if they cannot avoid staying up late so as not to become diabetes patients or diabetics.

Moreover, he continued, many diabetes sufferers are late in getting a diagnosis of their disease because they do not realize that they have diabetes and only find out about this when they have a health check when they are hospitalized due to another disease.

“According to the International Diabetes Federation (IDF), seven out of 10 people in Indonesia do not know that they have diabetes,” said Ikhsan. (ANT/red)

2023-11-13 14:15:12
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