Three times a day or six times a little bit? This question began to be asked by the nutriologists after the dramatic increase in the popularity of the theory of fractional nutrition, which many have mistaken for a universal way of getting rid of excess weight. "Eat more and more slowly" - the most popular advice in articles on weight loss. In fact, there is no unanimous opinion on this matter.

And the weight of the body has not changed. Fractional nutrition looks very tempting. Eat food six to eight times a day at regular intervals. Such tactics will allow you to keep the feeling of hunger in check and control the secretion of insulin, on which the accumulation of fat. In other words, with fractional nutrition, the metabolic rate is higher than with the standard three meals (breakfast-lunch-dinner). The representative of the American Diabetes Association, Noralyn Mills, told the WebMd medical portal that regular consumption of food at regular intervals causes your brain to think that you are all right and there is no need to convert calories to adipose tissue. However, this condition can be easily met with three meals a day. The same goes for metabolism. German scientists in 1987 conducted an experiment with eight volunteers. At first they ate five times a day, and then only one. In different dietary regimes, they always eat the same number of calories (13% of proteins, 46% of carbohydrates, 41% of fat). And the level of metabolism and body weight have not changed ... So what are we losing weight from?.

The latest study confirms the fact that the only condition that matters when losing weight is the number of calories. A person loses weight only due to an energy deficit, when he spends more than he consumes. The rest does not play a role in losing weight - and the number of meals including.

Some clinical studies support the fact that the mode of fractional nutrition should not be used for weight loss, but for weight gain. For example, it suits thin people or bodybuilders who want to gain muscle mass. Eating six to eight times a day allows you to maintain the nitrogen balance at a higher level and eat more calories per day. Due to fractional power, the 14-time Olympic swimming champion Michael Phelps (USA) consumes ... 12,000 kcal per day!.

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