A recent study at the Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine in Prague tested this hypothesis. Two groups of testers were fed 1,700 calories a day. The first group ate at regular intervals while the other group ate six small meals in the course of the day.
Scientists are sceptical of exercise instructors and dieticians who suddenly decide that they understand the complicated business of metabolism. And so should you be.
Many dieticians have made fortunes by telling us not to eat proper meals three times a day but to eat small quantities of food – a handful of nuts, an apple, etc. – every two hours or so.
It turned out that the people who ate regular meals lost an average of 1.4kgs more than the group that ate several small meals. More significantly perhaps, they also lost about 1.5 inches more from around their waists. The people who kept eating small meals not only lost less weight but were also highly dissatisfied and hungry throughout the day.
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