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Less Frequent Meals and Eating Most Calories Early in the Day May Prevent Body Fat from Accumulating Over Years

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Epidemiologists created the myth of obesity preventing, weight loss promoting effects of increases in meal frequency. Experimental scientists have yet not been able to convince the public that this is bogus... so, studies like Kahleova e al. (2017) may be 'observational bogus', but could actually be more likely to facilitate change than even the best RCTs. As a SuppVersity  reader you know that the commonly heard advice to eat 5-6 smaller vs. 3 larger meals in order to "stoke the metabolic fire" is bullshit ("No Advantage of 6 Meals While Dieting" | read ; "Many Small Meals Suck! Especially For Diabetics" | read ). Unfortunately, the mainstream media has not caught up to this insight... ... at least not until now. Now you're rightly asking yourselves why this would change, right? Well, you know how mainstream science reporting is obsessed with the impressive number of study participants in often practically worthless epidemiological studi...

Intermittent Fasting Increases 24h Energy Expenditure, But Skipping Breakfast Linked to Reduced Metabolic Flexibility

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"To eat or not to eat breakfast?" Unfortunately, the scientists geared their research pretty much to this question. Alright, you all have read my recent Facebook news post  about the reduced energy expenditure students reported in a hitherto unpublished paper. Those of you who have (rightly) pointed out that this was at best preliminary evidence (which is, by the way, exactly what I pointed out, as well), will now feel vindicated: Scientists from the German  University of Hohenheim  report that "when compared with the 3-meal control, 24-h energy expenditure was higher" with a meal-skipping regimen that had a lot of similarity to what many of you will practice and label "intermittent fasting". Learn more about fasting at the SuppVersity Don't Start Having Breakfast Now! "Lean Gains" Fast Works Fasting Better W/ 1 or 3 Meals? Fasting Works for Obese, Too!? IF + Resistance Training = WIN ADF Beats Ca-lorie Restriction ...
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