Women in Healthcare: Skipping meals isnt unhealthy for most?

amother

Tue, Sep 24 2019, 9:52 pm

Professional Women in Healthcare: Skipping meals isnt unhealthy for most? True or false? :

"If skipping meals is bad, then why do experts say intermittent fasting is healthy?

Because the people who claim that skipping meals is bad are not experts. They have not looked at the research. The idea that breakfast is the most important meal of the day originally came from a magazine edited by one of the Kellogg's (the breakfast cereal people). The hypothesis that eating 6 small meals a day revs your metabolism was a good hypothesis in that it sounded like it made sense, except there has never been a single study that shows it to be true. It comes down to how many calories you eat. To lose weight, you must take in fewer calories than your body uses. If it is easier for you to take in fewer calories by spreading your meals throughout the day and eating small, low calorie meals, do that. If it is easier to just eat one big high calorie meal, do that. The only people who skipping a meal might be dangerous for are people who are already underweight and have trouble eating big meals, as doing so might make them eat too few calories and lose more weight. For overweight people or people at a healthy weight, skipping meals, at least occasionally, is a healthy practice."

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