Meal Frequency, Weight Gain and Loss, Convexity and All That

publication date: May 6, 2011
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I have been often asked about meal frequency and weight or muscle gain and loss. The research literature simply has not theory and is conflicted. Supplement makers certainly like to recommend that you eat 6 times a day. No one really benefits if they tell you, as I do, that you can just eat when you are hungry, without any planned regularity. 2 to 3 meals a day will do just fine and now and then you might eat nothing or just one meal. You will have clean proteins in your muscle rather than aged ones, a gene expression profile that will keep you young, higher mitochondrial density and activity, and it is easier to lose weight that is mostly fat rather than lean tissue. it will help you gain muscle without piling on fat.


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