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(101 Health Steps) On November 21, 2011, The Globe and Mail posted an article titled, “Eating more often helps keep weight down: study.” This study is a great example of propaganda knowledge at its best due to its failures to highlight related facts on the subject.

The article fails to bring to light the facts that eating more often clearly does not give the stomach [and related organs for digestion] a chance to rest. Snacking all day long does not give the stomach the rest it requires [NEEDS]. Similar to running all day without giving your legs and heart a rest all day, the stomach also requires a rest from digesting. It was not designed to digest all day long [and all night long for that matter].

Findings by such health leaders such as Victoria Bidwell (Bidwell V 2009, The Health Seeker’s Yearbook) teaches us how we are to eat only twice a day [and hours before the sun goes down or hours before one is ready to go to sleep]. Two decent sized meals properly divided to total the amount of calories an individual needs per day depending on their size and desired weight, is what has been recommended.

So if an individual requires 2000 calories, the meals can be 1000 each or 500 for the first one and 1500 for the second one [The latter is a better choice, so the stomach can break the fast (break-fast) gently with the first meal]. We fast at night because when we do not eat it is called fasting, which we do each and every night. Of course those meals should be low fat, raw, whole, ripe, fresh, organic (when possible) and plant-based. Read more »