In fact, recent research actually suggests the exact opposite: skipping dinner might encourage weight gain. In a January 2021 ​Nutrients​ study, researchers found that college-aged students who regularly skipped dinner gained more weight than their counterparts who — for the most part — ate dinner daily.

What happens if you skip dinner?

To begin with, skipping dinner could lead to nutritional deficiency in your body, since you need micronutrients like magnesium, Vitamin B12 and Vitamin D3 for daily functioning. And if you continue this practice for long, you put yourself at the risk of becoming malnourished or developing nutritional deficiencies.

Will skipping dinner reduce belly fat?

Skipping meals may seem like a shortcut to losing weight, but a new study suggests it could backfire and actually increase belly fat. For the study, published in the Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry, researchers from The Ohio State University and Yale looked at the impact of different eating habits in mice.