173: Six or Three Meals Per Day for Best Body Comp?

Several years ago it seemed like everyone recommended 5 or 6 small meals a day and now it seems there’s been a backlash whereby more flexible dieting principles have tried to instill that meal frequency does not matter, but are they oversimplifying things? Today’s research study reviewed looks at meal frequency and level of protein intake and their roles in body composition optimization. The applications half of the episode attempts to put all of the above in context for real world implementation. John always reviews the full text of every article, but to see the abstract of the study discussed, click here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23703835
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