I snack on fruit, nuts and vegetables during the day and have a full meal of a lot of meat (like more than 500g) and veges for dinner.  I've been giving my son (8months) 3 meals a day though, as school practices will frown upon my style of eating, so I need to train him early, but I try to make his breakfast and lunch more 'snack' like (i.e. fruit) so it's easy to adapt to mine later on.


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From: Alec Wood <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, May 1, 2008 4:31:39 AM
Subject: 3 meals a day?

It seems in modern society that 3 meals a day are the norm.  There are some who advocate 5 or 6 smaller meals a day as a way to boost metabolism, improve blood sugar control, improve cholesterol rations and lose weight.  One of the advocates of that is Mercola.  I am not diabetic, so do I need to be that concerned about blood sugar control on a lower carb diet and does 5 to 6 meals a day work?
 
I tried that but those smaller meals did not leave me satisfied, so my 6 small meals grew to mean 6 larger meals. Not good for losing weight.  
 
Does anyone get through the day on less, perhaps 2 larger meals a day?
 
It seems to me that our ancient ancestors would of had an evening meal. The next morning had a breakfast of left overs from the evening meal, and then went about the day hunting to the next meal.  They may have picked fruit or nuts during the day hunting.  But did they have a full meal like we do today for lunch?
 
Another reason I ask this is that I want to get away from my office for the hour a day. It is kind of hard to do that and eat lunch at the same time.
 
 
Alec


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