Breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper
A popular adage suggests we should “eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper”. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] We interrogated more than half a million days of food diaries to see whether it is actually helpful. Breakfast The chart below shows the proportion daily calories consumed at breakfast […]
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How many times should you eat a day to lose weight?
Having access to half a million days of MyFitnessPal data to validate and bust dietary myths recently has been a lot of fun (in a nerdy data geek sort of way). Another obvious question to ask is how many times a day should you eat to reduce your chance of overeating to stay lean, manage diabetes […]
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why breakfast is the most important meal of a day
According to some, the idea that “breakfast is the most important meal of the day” was generated by Kellogg’s to sell cereal designed to decrease libido and control masturbation. Today, many people like to skip breakfast because they are busy in the morning or to help manage their food intake across the day. But what can […]
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