Dr. Ben Bikman

I think the proof is in the pudding, which is that's how most people eat.

They eat a starchy, sugary, terrible breakfast, then they need a mid-morning snack, then they need lunch, then they need an afternoon snack, and then dinner, then an evening snack.

We can see the consequences, which is insulin resistance and obesity are the most common problems.

Even where obesity is not common, insulin resistance is still common.

Not to go on a tangent too much, but...

Even countries like Japan or Singapore, my second home, one of my kids was born there.

I did my fellowship in Singapore.

Why would the beautiful little island of Singapore care so much about diabetes when the average Singaporean is incredibly lean?

Because their rates of diabetes are higher than ours by a lot.

We're not even close to the most diabetic country, and that actually comes back to how we store fat.

So with regards to meal frequency and what we eat, I think high-carb

diet with abundant calories and eating multiple times a day is the worst way to do it so i would think it'd be better to have fewer meals two to three meals a day where you're controlling carbs so whole fruits and vegetables enjoy them and then good proteins and fats enjoy them liberally but

This isn't convenient in social or family situations, but the more you can stack your meals to be earlier in the day, the better.

So studies that have looked at humans finding where they do the kind of intermittent fasting or time-restricted eating of you have one group eat breakfast and lunch, one group eat lunch and supper.

The lunch and supper group has worse outcomes.

Not that they're not better.

I mean, any one of those is better than the standard.

But when you compare the two, the outcomes are better for the meals being earlier in the day.

Now, you and I are parents.

How awkward would it be for me to come home and just sit around the dinner table and look at my darling wife and kids eat dinner while I'm not?