Eating time schedule for weight loss

What you eat matters most. (Probably.) But, more and more, researchers are finding when you eat also affects your risk for obesity and several other serious—and seriously common—health problems.

“When you look at the world’s healthiest populations, none of them are eating the way most people do in the United States,” says Valter Longo, Ph.D., a professor of biological sciences at the University of Southern California .

Even if you’re eating healthy foods, “eating five or six times a day is a problem,” he says.

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Other experts agree.

“Human beings are not genetically engineered to eat all day long,” says Mark Mattson, Ph.D., chief of the Laboratory of Neurosciences at the National Institute of Aging. “But most people are putting something caloric in their mouths throughout their waking hours, and I think the evidence of the harm this causes is how many people are overweight or obese.”

Put simply, three meals bridged with snacks and smoothies is not a healthy plan of attack.

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