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Originally Posted by aka123
So what's the deal with 5-6 meals? If not nothing else it's bad for your teeth.
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I have never heard anyone make the argument that eating like a human being is "bad for your teeth". Anyone that's serious about health and fitness and weight loss, eats like this. Proper food, divided among say 4 meals with 2 snacks, enables your body to maintain stable blood sugar levels for stable energy through the day and it helps your body, with exercise and proper diet to sustain a higher metabolic rate, allowing you to eat eat more food (for growth and repair/recovery) and subsequently burn more calories in a day, experience less fatigue etc etc etc.
People mistakenly say "eating several small meals speeds up your metabolism" but thats not how it works. Your metabolic rate is always in direct relation to the quantity of food you eat, when you eat it. In other words, not eating breakfast, means having less energy as you start your day.. then eating a large lunch to compensate, means a spike in energy (proportionate to how much you ate), followed by a crash (proportionate to the up-spike in energy)... then you likely need a nap, then you eat dinner, have no energy... and play xbox and fall asleep.
If you exercise, you have to eat right regardless.