Small, Frequent Meals Don’t Increase Metabolism

In two groups of women fed five high-fat meals one day and two high-fat meals on a separate day, meal frequency did not affect 24-hour energy expenditure in either the obese group (2124 Kcal/day with five meals versus 2142 Kcal/day with two meals) or the lean group (1724 vs. 1683 Kcal/day, respectively). According to Milan Kumar Piva, MD, PhD., of the University of Warwick in Coventry, UK, and colleagues, "Some people like to eat a couple of times a day, and our research suggests that this may be a good way to lower inflammation and metabolic disease risk." Presented at the Society for Endocrinology BES 2014 in Liverpool, UK March 2014