Member-only story
3 Meals a Day Isn’t Enough
Improving your health with science
As hard as it can be to hear, we have to accept certain truths about good health.
Some are common knowledge, such as the notion that a broccoli is better for us than a deep fried stick of butter.
Others are less obvious, including the idea that eating many small meals each day is better than 3 large meals.
Eating three meals a day is a fundamental practice we were raised to replicate. It feels right to us, but not to our digestive system.
Attacking the ‘three meal’ model is a controversial thought, and it hits hard at the companies who work and spend hard to ensure that we’re spending money on their meal-specific products.
However, I prescribe to the belief that we’re far better off pacing our eating out throughout the day.
The ‘three meal’ system
The way we traditionally eat puts a lot of pressure on our digestive system to perform.
We starve ourselves for hours, then ingest an enormous amount high intensive food all at once.
Dinner is a meal that…
