Quick look didn't find it, but I don't see why this follows (and at a wild guess, I'm guessing it doesn't). Can you link?
As you stand on the equator, with the Sun directly overhead, its gravity is pulling you away from the Earth's center. On the other side of the Earth, the Sun's gravity pulls you in towards its center. Consequently you weigh slightly less at noon than at midnight. However, since the force of the Sun's gravity on a 100-kg mass 1 AU distant is about 0.006 Newton, an average bathroom scale is not going to notice.
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