India, Nov. 13 -- Are you frequently in the habit of having late-night meals? Pushing dinnertime, whether due to work commitments or your night-owl tendencies, may be risky for your health in the long run. What may seem like a harmless habit could actually trigger a chain reaction in your body and potentially increase the risks of lifestyle diseases.

To understand which is the biggest risk of this habit, HT Lifestyle reached out to Dr Pranav Ghody, consultant endocrinologist and diabetologist at Wockhardt Hospitals in Mumbai Central. He named diabetes to be one of the major risks if one persistently continues to eat dinner late.

"Iffood is taken too close to bedtime, it interferes with the body's proper digestion of glucose, raising blo...