Consequence of omitting or adding a meal in man on body composition, food intake, and metabolism.

Objective: To investigate in man the consequence on body composition and related biological and metabolic parameters of omitting or adding a meal.

Research Methods And Procedures: Twenty-four young normal-weight male subjects were recruited, 12 usual four-meal and 12 usual three-meal eaters, differing only in the consumption of an afternoon meal. They omitted or added a fourth meal during a 28-day habituation period and were asked to report their intake on three 3-day occasions.

Highlighting the positive impact of increasing feeding frequency on metabolism and weight management.

Research on feeding frequency started more than 20 years ago and some studies have shown evidence of nutritional benefits, especially on metabolism and body weight management. Advice on feeding frequency could play an important role in public health policies by reducing levels of overweight and obesity, the prevalence of which has dangerously increased in most countries over the last few decades. The 17th International Congress of Nutrition brought to the forefront the benefits of increasing feeding frequency (i.

A role for glucose and insulin preprandial profiles to differentiate meals and snacks.

A physiological distinction between eating occasions may help account for contradictory findings on the role of eating frequency in energy homeostasis. We assessed this issue using a midafternoon eating occasion known in France as the goûter that often consists of snack foods. Among the 24 male subjects, 8 habitually consumed four meals per day, i.

Snacks consumed in a nonhungry state have poor satiating efficiency: influence of snack composition on substrate utilization and hunger.

Background: Several epidemiologic studies suggest that snacking may play an etiologic role in obesity.

Objective: We assessed the behavioral and metabolic consequences of a high-carbohydrate (HC) or high-protein (HP) snack consumed 215 min after lunch, thereby investigating ways that snacking in a nonhungry state could be involved in the etiology of obesity.

Design: Eight lean young men attended 3 sessions (basal, HP snack, and HC snack) in a counterbalanced order with 2 wk between sessions.