The point of this article is to inform the reader why people crave junk food at night. The author begins the article by telling a personal story of going to Burger King when he was in college. This attention gather pulls the reader in . After the short story he goes on to say that many studies have shown that a lot of people are more apt to eat calorie heavy foods during the night. He then mentions that it seems that our cravings are more related to our internal clock than to actual hunger. He explains the specific scientific side of midnight cravings by naming the hormones involved.
He then goes on to explain how everything is brought together by a person's sleeping habits. Since at night we don't burn as many calories there is a blood sugar drop which tells our bodies that it's time to sleep, but if we stay awake we feel the need to compensate for this drop by eating high calorie foods.
In conclusion, the main solution to stop midnight cravings is to get some sleep. Throughout the article the author cites many studies made about the subject. At one point he even includes a graph about food preferences per hour. He ends the article by giving another personal story relating to the one he used at the beginning, tying it all together.
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/09/the-science-of-the-midnight-snack/380510/
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