3 Hour Meals increase Metabolism???

[MarkFlC5]

OK, I know this was briefly touched on in another Post by BLOOD DRINKER but that post mostly related to the 1 day a meal issue. I think many people are starting to believe that 5 meals a day actually increases one's metabolic rate. I admit that perhaps I'm not sure if this is true or not but I haven't found any data to support this. Personally, I have meals every 3 - 3.5 hours but I don't do it beieving that it increases my Metabolism.

But I did promise a friend that I would check into it for her and after conducting a brief search on this forum on the topic and not finding anything, I would like to know if anyone can offer some feedback on this. So any input, especially scientific studies (here we go again - hey, they are the only we got, what can I say?) would be greatly appreciated. I'm sure many others would like to get some feedback on this as well.

Thanks In Advance.

 

[MarkFlC5]

For anyone who's interested in this question, here is a link to a thread posted earlier by MS Bodybuilder. It addresses this issue and has some other good stuff in it.


http://209.11.101.244/forum/showthread.php?threadid=43228

 

[diamonddiceclay]

everything I've read says to eat every 2and a half hrs

 

[Hoffmeister]

Here's a link to a bunch of articles on PubMed:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Link&db=PubMed&dbFrom=PubMed&from_uid=9155494

Pretty much all say the same thing. The number of meals has no effect on metabolism.

 

[HumanShell]

I don't think eating every 3 hours is supposed to increase your metabolic rate, but help keep it constant.