When Lauren Wysocki reaches into the fridge for a midnight snack, she goes straight for the Ben & Jerry’s Cherry Garcia.
A new study conducted by Massive Health shows that Wysocki isn’t alone in her late-night junk food consumption. The whole world does it.
The study used data from the iPhone application Eatery. It found that healthiness in food consumption decreases by 1.7 percent every hour.
Wysocki, a 19-year-old applied physiology and kinesiology sophomore, said the study makes sense.
“At night, people don’t get cravings for salads,” she said. “They get cravings for ice cream.”
Andrew J. Rosenthal, Massive Health’s chief strategy officer, said the trend is obvious on college campuses.
“If you go out on a college campus on a Thursday night late, you’ll see people stopping and getting pizza after going to a bar,” he said.
Eatery, the application used in the study, lets users snap photos of food, then record where and when they ate it. Other users rate the food on its perceived healthiness.
Rosenthal also said the data found weekends to be unhealthier.
That’s when the application’s users drank 1.6 times as much beer as on weekdays.
