To increase your own metabolic flexibility, eat larger, more filling meals so you don’t need to snack every hour or two. That goes against a popular belief that eating “six small meals a day” is better than two or three big ones, but research bears it out. Scientists in the Czech Republic, in 2014, tested this in people with type 2 diabetes. They decided on a daily calorie quota and got one group of participants to consume their calories in two large meals and the other group to consume them in six small meals. The two-meal group not only lost more weight (8 pounds versus 5 pounds in three
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