Eating little and often is healthier than the traditional meals three times a day
Frequent eating helps to reduce blood pressure and cholesterol and even melt the pounds
British scientists have found that eating little and often is healthier than the traditional meals three times a day, report from Daily Mail. The experts advise people to eat nine times a day.
Frequent eating helps to reduce blood pressure and cholesterol and even melt the pounds, say the researchers.
The separation of food intake in such a way that we could eat many times a day has beneficial effects on metabolism, compared to the same food consumed in fewer meals, said the leader of the research Dr. Susan Jebb.
In a recent study, researchers from Imperial College London, compared the diets of more than 2000 people from Britain, Japan, China and USA. Although they received the same amount of calories and food, half of the participants ate less than six times a day and the rest – more than six times a day.
The results showed that the first group had significantly higher systolic blood pressure (the pressure that blood has on blood vessels when the heart beats) than the people who ate more often. Participants in the first group were also significantly more comprehensive.
The Imperial College study supports previous studies advised to give up the idea to stick to three meals a day – breakfast, lunch and dinner. For example, scientists at the University of Athens made a study with more than 2000 children between the age of 9 and 13. The study showed that the children who ate five times a day reduced by 32.6% the risk of having high levels of bad cholesterol in comparison with their peers who ate at least twice a day.
It is unclear why eating more often has this positive impact, but according to one theory, frequent meals prevent high inflow of fatty acids, substances that are released from food and can lead to accumulation of fat in the arteries and contribute to high cholesterol levels.
Source : dailyhealtharticles[dot]com
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