All right, as a couple others have said, there's more than one way to skin a cat, as there are different ways to get your calories. I said I prefer more meals and why I prefer it. There's all kinds of people on both sides of the issue claiming one way is best, so to say one way is the THE way is wrong. Everyone's bodies and goals are different and you need to find out and do what works best for you. And as far as picking up a book written in this century...don't be a moron. It's hard NOT to find a current book or article talking about frequent meals.
Indeed. It's hard not to find a current book or article talking about how wonderful glutamine is (it doesn't do shit unless you're in a burn unit getting 40g of it a day through an IV), or how a high protein diet will wreck your kidneys (it won't, unless you have diseased kidneys in which case you're already terribly ill with wrecked kidneys), or how "muscle confusion" is the latest and greatest (here's a tip: you can't confuse your muscles. They don't think). It's hard not to find a current book or article extolling the virtues of a low fat diet and cardio-cardio-CARDIO for leanness, either.
Repetition doesn't equal fact.
We've said it before - the difference here is small - if you feel better, personally, if you're more comfortable and feel more "fed" eating frequent meals, go for it. There's no science to support its superiority over other eating patterns, and in fact there is science to support superiority over other eating patterns, but the advantages is small over simply eating the right amount of the right food for your body.
But the "debate" portion has been closed now since at least
1997.
Br J Nutr.
1997 Apr;77 Suppl 1:S57-70.
Meal frequency and energy balance.
Bellisle F, McDevitt R, Prentice AM.
INSERM U341, Hotel Dieu de Paris, France.
Several epidemiological studies have observed an inverse relationship between people's habitual frequency of eating and body weight, leading to the suggestion that a 'nibbling' meal pattern may help in the avoidance of obesity. A review of all pertinent studies shows that, although many fail to find any significant relationship, the relationship is consistently inverse in those that do observe a relationship. However, this finding is highly vulnerable to the probable confounding effects of post hoc changes in dietary patterns as a consequence of weight gain and to
dietary under-reporting which undoubtedly invalidates some of the studies. We conclude that the epidemiological evidence is at best very weak, and almost certainly represents an artefact. A detailed review of the possible mechanistic explanations for a metabolic advantage of nibbling meal patterns failed to reveal significant benefits in respect of energy expenditure. Although some short-term studies suggest that the thermic effect of feeding is higher when an isoenergetic test load is divided into multiple small meals, other studies refute this, and most are neutral. More importantly,
studies using whole-body calorimetry and doubly-labelled water to assess total 24 h energy expenditure find no difference between nibbling and gorging. Finally, with the exception of a single study, there is no evidence that weight loss on hypoenergetic regimens is altered by meal frequency. We conclude that any effects of meal pattern on the regulation of body weight are likely to be mediated through effects on the food intake side of the energy balance equation.
PMID: 9155494 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
The one study that shows a possible effect cannot be trusted because of dietary self-reporting, a problem that is rampant in these types of studies. You really have to lock people up and feed them weighed and prepared food if you really want to see the results - just like they have done with animals - where no effect has ever been noted.
My .02
There's always one... You do realize those are her abs in the avatar?
this is why i am having the physical and blood tests done.
