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Does Meal Frequency Matter As Regards Weight Loss

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2486691380_1c705bdb42 This could be one of the most hotly debated topics as regards losing weight is concerned and it is something I have wondered about myself whether or not how often you eat can make a difference to how much weight you do or don’t lose.

This could be one of the most hotly debated topics as regards losing weight is concerned and it is something I have wondered about myself whether or not how often you eat can make a difference to how much weight you do or don’t lose.

Some people say that eating six small meals a day is better than three meals per day the way I tend to look at this is if you eat six small meals in a day, your blood sugar is far more likely to stay constant. Rather than if you eat three meals and nothing in between. The reason three meals a day was introduced into our lives to fit around the modern-day work ethic.

Where as years ago it probably didn’t matter one of the assumptions about meal frequency is that eating throughout the day you also have a slow at release of nutrition into your body now whether that makes any actual difference I don’t really know.

Another reason for eating food throughout the day at regular intervals is because you are supposed to benefit from the thermic properties of food which the theory goes is this eating food is a chemical process, and you use up calories while you are eating.

However, is there any actual validation to any of this? A study which was put together by the British Medical Journal seems to think. A group of British people were followed who all had the same calorie deficit within their diets. And were split into two groups one group ate small six meals a day and the other group ate three large meals.

After eight weeks the results were in all the participants within both groups all lost significant amounts of weight and had lesserBMI ’s and lower body fat percentage. However, despite the fact that we are led to believe that eating smaller meals is better the group who ate six meals a day, had no significant differences compared to the other group and there was no improvement in appetite control, etc.

So there goes another dieting myth blown out the water. And to conclude I have a question for you do you actually find that eating small meals throughout the day is better than eating three large meals or doesn’t it make that much difference?