• funkajunk@lemm.ee
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    16 hours ago

    Nope, they didn’t. Biologically we’re not meant to eat 3 times a day, every day. That’s why we have a lot of health problems, our bodies don’t know how to handle so much food.

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      15 hours ago

      Biologically we’re not meant anything. We do with what we’ve got. And for most people, three meals a day works out pretty well. It’s just convention.

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        14 hours ago

        Meal frequency has been linked to insulin sensitivity in plenty of research.

        Don’t get too hung up on certain words, I just meant within the scope of how we evolved; our bodily systems are better suited to doing certain things in a certain way. The agricultural revolution happened around 10,000 BCE, yet gluten sensitivity is a very common affliction.