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> Calories make you fat. It's not nearly that simple. 2000 calories once a day in one sitting is vastly different than 2000 calories spread evenly over 5 or 6

• matwood 16y ago
  Intermittent fasting with nutrient timing: http://www.alanaragon.com/an-objective-look-at-intermittent-fasting.html http://www.alanaragon.com/an-objective-look-at-intermittent-... It seems that the research points that body comp levels are either unchanged or lead to more fat with the more meals/per day. The benefit of spreading out calories has to do with satiety and hunger not the gaining of fat. From the well researched article summary: § A haphazard/randomly variable meal frequency, not necessarily a lower frequency, negatively impacts thermogenesis, blood lipids, and insulin sensitivity. § Within a day, a higher frequency has no thermodynamic advantage over a lower frequency under controlled conditions. § The majority of controlled intervention trials show no improvement in body composition with a higher meal frequency.