I've read that eating dinner too late can cause you to gain weight. Is there any truth to this and what is the best time to eat dinner for proper nutrition?

The body doesn’t know if you are eating during the Today Show or if you are eating during the Tonight Show. What matters is how many calories you are consuming in relation to how many you are expending. My husband and I are fitness instructors and have early evening classes a couple of times a week. This means we eat dinner at 8:00 or 8:30 p.m. on some nights. After our workouts we need to eat! If you have eaten a substantial dinner at 5 or 6 in the evening and then find yourself having a big bowl of ice-cream or another meal while watching the 10’oclock news, you may be eating out of emotion rather than for nutrition. If the time of day was that important to eating and weight gain, then only people who ate after a certain time of day would have weight problems.