6 meals a day - Scientifically Proven?

[StewDogg]

Hey guys. I just got done reading Tim Venuto's "Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle". I loved it. Was talking to a friend on the 5-6 meals a day deal, with certain proteins/amino acids needing refueled that often and if not the body extracting them from muscle.

In the book it stated this as proven fact, but my friend says it has NEVER been proven to physiollogically make a difference/occur.

Is this true?

TIA,

Ryan

 

[PoweredUp]

Hey guys. I just got done reading Tim Venuto's "Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle". I loved it. Was talking to a friend on the 5-6 meals a day deal, with certain proteins/amino acids needing refueled that often and if not the body extracting them from muscle.

In the book it stated this as proven fact, but my friend says it has NEVER been proven to physiollogically make a difference/occur.

Is this true?

TIA,

Ryan

Take it from me - it works. I dropped 65 pounds eating every 2 hours (7-8 meals per day).

 

[deathdroprob]

lol your friend is soooo wrong. Does he think you get muscley by simply eating lot of anything? just curious. Some peopp;e have twisted ideas of how dieting etc works.

 

[deathdroprob]

lol your friend is soooo wrong. Does he think you get muscley by simply eating lot of anything? just curious. Some people have twisted ideas of how dieting etc works.

 

[StewDogg]

Well, he thinks it works, but is psychological.

Main thing is, he says that the theory is unproven scientifically, just wanting to see if that's true.

 

[Sim882]

Well, he thinks it works, but is psychological.

Main thing is, he says that the theory is unproven scientifically, just wanting to see if that's true.

I have read studies showing that it doesn't speed up metabolism, but may help the body from going anti-catabolic, which is significant enough to warrant regular meals (5+)

 

[StewDogg]

I was more referring to the body needing certain proteins ever 3-4 hours or that it will seek them from your own muscles. That's the major advantage to it as I see it and what Tom focused on

I'd think for anyone to even think this, at some point scientific studies had to be done than conclusively showed this process occurring?

 

[st8grad]

It's massively debated whether or not it is beneficial or not. I follow it, but there isn't much proof.

It helps keep an even keel with hunger and such though. I guess really what it comes down to is if it works for you then go with it. Dance with the person that brought you as they say.

 

[Sim882]

6 meals a day prevents u from eating shit, because otherwise u go way in excess of ur daily calories (can make eating out harder though)

 

[silverskyline]

I have read studies showing that it doesn't speed up metabolism, but may help the body from going anti-catabolic, which is significant enough to warrant regular meals (5+)

as far as metabolism goes actuially my last nutrition course the instructor said that there is no actuial proof that metabolism can be speed up, not to say there is not a way or were doing it and not knowing it but things like eatting more often does not make your metabolism any faster just processes the food more effectively through the pancreas and the liver for distribution.

 

[get456]

as far as metabolism goes actuially my last nutrition course the instructor said that there is no actuial proof that metabolism can be speed up, not to say there is not a way or were doing it and not knowing it but things like eatting more often does not make your metabolism any faster just processes the food more effectively through the pancreas and the liver for distribution.

well we know that by being sedentary and eating a shitty diet it is shown to lower metabolism... so how could the opposite not be true?

 

[chazk]

it has been scientificaly proven
when two groups were feed @ 2100 calories a day
group 1 were feed around 350calories divided into 6 meals (servings)
group 2 were feed around 700calories divided into 3 meals (servings)

after 8 weeks group 2 lost a total of 2.3 body fat percent on average
group 1 lost under 1%

it was done in germany with some group of old farts in a hospital with a controled diet
it showed that the body when it recieves food spread out over the day will store less of the calories as fat vs someone that eats 3 times a day will store more fat becuase of longer gaps between meals..

If you guys google it it will prob show up.
the cave man diet goes into detail about it pretty good, humans being scavangers and used to eating all day long or incase some days eating alot and some days eating almost nothing .
the diet follwed a 6 meals+ a day for 2-3 days eating when ever you could
the diet was only foods that a cave man could eat ,meats,veggies ,nuts berries and fruits
then a day or two restricted diet 2 meals a day then 2-3 days of eating 6 meals +
the theory was the body never gets used to it and you stay in a fat burning mode
It works if anyone has every tried it they will attest to it.

But then eating a diet of meats,veggies,fruits,berries and nuts
is prob pretty damn healthy and cuaing weightloss reguardless


one big plus to a bodybuilder dividing his intake into 6 meals is
digestion .
If a person is eating 4k a plus in calories ,3 times a day would be 1200-1500 calories per sitting, eating it over 6 meals would mean around 600 calories per sitting
helping reduce bloating cramping and eazing the digestion process

 

[get456]

And 4000 CLEAN calories is a LOT of food

 

[StewDogg]

Thanks for the info! That study is very interesting since I'm sure the hospital patients had limited excercise on top of it and still showed such a difference.