A healthy eating plan, you can choose to adopt if you want to lose weight, is to eat more often. That may sound contradictory, however, according to a study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology in 2003, people who eat four or more meals per day have a 33 percent lower risk of being overweight.
This could be due to the fact that leaving a long space of time in between meals, will tend to make you more hungry and more likely to overeat. Dinner, the last meal of the day, can end up being too large and in many cases it can be quite late at night. Your body doesn’t have time to fully digest your meal before going to bed, a huge factor for overweight problems.
Another reason could be that if you eat smaller amounts, more regularly, you are more likely to have sustained energy throughout the day. Eating more regularly, or ‘grazing’, could also mean your body would burn more energy in the digestive process.
The key however, to this healthy eating plan, is to stick to small and regular meals and not get tricked into thinking you can still eat meals of the same size, just more of them!
Ref: Am J Epidemiol 2003;158:85–92
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