What should be your heaviest meal of the day: breakfast, lunch, or dinner?
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The answer to this question is simple. It depends! There is no one answer, just as there is no one human being. We are all different. When you are born, you feed every 2 hours, that’s 12 meals a day, and it’s totally normal! When you are around six months old, your mother decides she has had enough of the night feeds, and you learn to fast for 8 hours a night from then on. Until you are in your early 20’s, your growing body needs lots of nourishment. A child should never skip breakfast ideally, because hungry children have poor outcomes in school. But even at that age, your body naturally craves more food at certain meal times than at others, and that varies from child to child. Between your 20’s and mid-30’s, your long term activity and meal patterns get set. Most of us naturally adapt our food intake to how athletic/sporting/sedentary we are, as well as the amount of marketing nonsense that we are bombarded with from everywhere (“drink this beer, all the cute girls will swarm around you”, “eat this sugar-filled breakfast of champions”, “drink this caffeinated cola with 12 spoons of sugar in a can, and you will look cool”). By mid-30’s, a certain amount of self-awareness kicks in (which is why for television advertisers the “key demographic” is 18–34 because they know that people over 34 don’t easily fall for their marketing bullshit), and you realize that you have been fed a pile of crap your whole life by everyone from breakfast cereal manufacturers to drinks companies to vitamin manufacturers (seriously, you don’t need to take vitamin pills if you are below age 60!). So now I will tell you a secret for the 35 plus crowd. The human average lifespan is optimized for age 35! In other words, in evolutionary biology terms, given that a woman’s peak fertility is at age 16, and she is supposed to become a grandmother by around age 35, nature doesn’t really care if we live beyond age 35 (so the advertisers with their target demographic are really on to something!) In other words, nature has an interest in keeping you alive till 35, after that you are on your own. After that age, you need to take steps that will prolong your body and mind in a healthy way for as long as you can. This is why things start breaking down after that age, we start getting chronic conditions, the body takes much longer to repair, you name it. So what does this mean for meals after age 35? The answer is the same, it depends. For normal sedentary people, I recommend something that I do myself. I personally fast for 16 hours each day (unless I am training for sports), and eat only between noon and 8 pm (It is a form of intermittent fasting). So I skip breakfast. Others who follow my advice eat between 8am and 2pm, eat a big breakfast, and skip dinner. That works just fine for them. Others I know eat 3 meals a day, but controlled and roughly equal in calories and nutritional value. Still others I know who are sports people, eat 3 healthy meals and a couple of small snacks. Do you see a pattern here? Me neither! Let the mirror and your personal preference and your health profile be your guide, and as long as you make sure you do not develop an unhealthy relationship with food, or see food as a source of “comfort”, you are going to be ok. In other words, worry less about what should be the heaviest meal, and think more about the source, the quality, and the composition of your food (fiber = good, whole grains and veggies = good, healthy fat = good, organic and local = good, fast sugar carbs = bad, transfats = poison, saturated fats = bad, if it comes pre-made out of a box = bad). One last thing. Embrace hunger! yes, I mean it. Hunger is not something that you should spend a lot of time keeping at bay. There is absolutely no need to reach for that junk snack just because you are hungry. Learn to love a little feeling of hunger, and you will have a much healthier relationship with food. Eat for joy, health, happiness, variety, even taste, but don’t eat for hunger! Wish you a long and healthy life.. |
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