Almost all of the typical eating patterns and habits of the western world are bad for your health, make it impossible to manage weight, and decrease not only our drive to, but the effectiveness of any exercise we may decide to undertake.
Normally a person will start off with breakfast, at best being the smallest meal of the day. It is even more common than ever in society to skip breakfast completely. By the time lunch comes around, we are totally starved, or even worse, with automatic food machines all around, we replace our healthy diet with processed food snacks or sodas to tide us over. While lunch is consumed more than breakfast regularly, it is still second in the quantity and frequency amongst all traditional meals. In the afternoon our bodies are usually put through the chores of our lives, and need extra energy in order to perform. While lunch usually has more nutrients in it than our instant breakfast, or fasting and snacking period, this is usually the meal of the day where our following activity quickly burns the calories away, tempting us to once again snack from the machines at the office before going home for the day. Once at home, toward the end of the day, we usually consume the largest amount of calories of the day, when we least need them.
Not only does the amount of food we consume during each part of the day make no sense, the number of times a day we eat contribute to the need to snack throughout the day in order to keep our energy levels up, leading us to constantly eat the wrong types of foods. If were to instead eat 5 or 6 smaller, healthier meals throughout the day, we would be able to not only better regulate our food intake, but reduce the amount of processed food we eat, as well as allowing us to keep our energy levels up during high impact activities by eating more without guilt. If the body is better trained to utilize its energy intake by paying more attention to a consistent and healthy diet, then the body will be less likely to resort to feast and famine behaviors such as unneeded fate storage for fear of starvation throughout the day due to wide gaps between meals.
