• catloaf@lemm.ee
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    12 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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      12 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.