Should You Eat 3 Meals Per Day?

Eating three meals a day used to be the standard advice for good health. However, today “health experts” have many different views; some say that you should have six meals a day, others say just one, and others say that you should have fasting days.

What Do Healthy People Do?

In healthy cultures like those in the Mediterranean region, they have three meals a day. The key for them is the volume they are consuming at meals, provides the nutritional value as well as balances out the caloric load.

In other words, they eat higher quality foods at a lower quantity. This allows them to have three meals a day and remain satisfied between mealtimes.

Another important factor is that if you are not hungry in the morning and have no issues making it to mid-day without having to snack, then do not feel like you absolutely must have three meals. There is nothing magical about that number. The real key to eating three meals per day, like healthy people do, is to adopt higher quality foods with lower quantity consumption.