The three-meal-a-day habit comes from shift work and institutions, not biology. Breakfast slows your thinking and blood flow. Eating once or twice daily with filling foods keeps you fuller longer than grazing three times.
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Why do we eat three meals a day? Why do we think it's a good idea? Three meals a day was designed to prepare you for shift work or your grandparents. Ring a bell, Eat your food. Ring a bell, go to work. Ring a bell, eat your food. And they rolled it out through our school systems and through our work systems. And so now we're stuck in this three meal a day mentality. But there's all kinds of problems with it. First problem is, what's the most important meal a day? Breakfast. Actually. Actually, you need to think a little bit about that, because what most people do at breakfast time is eat a bunch of food that slows down their blood and slows down their brain. They start their day that way. So let's take a look at natural nutritional rhythms. You see, when you eat three meals a day, you know what you do? You stretch your stomach three times a day. So you keep your stomach big all day long. And guess what? It makes you feel really hungry. So one of the most important things that you can do is eat really good, satiating, filling foods once or twice a day and eat to prevent your hunger, rather than eating to perpetuate it. Three meals a day will make you feel hungry. Good nutritional meals once or twice a day will make you feel full.
