Eating by The Clock: Is Eating 3x a Day Making You Fat? Scheduled Feeding Results In Adipogenesis in Growing Rats - Less Lean, More Fat Mass.
Image 1: Simplified illustration of the purported function of ghrelin in the human body ( healthhabits.ca ) Eating whenever you feel "hungry" (I suppose most of us don't even know what hunger is, anyway) seems to be a bad idea in a society where the abundance of readily available (low quality) foods turns out to be at the heart of many of the health problems we are facing these days. Thus, it seems counter-intuitive that our standardized 3xday feeding schedules, which, if nothing else, do prevent us from eating nutritional bullsh** 24/7, could in fact be making us fat . This, i.e. the finding that eating at fixed times 3x a day induces weight, or more specifically, fat gain in rats on an other wise (calorically) unrestricted diet, is yet the surprising result of an investigation ( Verbaeys. 2011 ) the results of which have been published in the March issue of the American Journal of Physiology. For 14 days the sci...