a man sitting at a table with a plate of food: Though it is the cultural norm to eat dinner late at night in some European and South American countries, doing so may have serious consequences. When Brazilian researchers analyzed data on heart attack patients in 2019, they found that those who tended to eat later were four to five times more likely to die as a result of the cardiac event, or to suffer from another heart attack within a month of being discharged from the hospital.
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