MYTH: Skipping meals is a good way to lose weight.
FACT: Many people think that by skipping a meal, they eat less food and therefore lose weight. Studies show that people who skip breakfast and eat fewer times during the day tend to be heavier than people who eat a healthy breakfast and eat four or five times a day. This is partly due to the fact that when skipping a meal, you feel hungrier and tend to overeat at the next meal and pay less attention to your satiety cues. Often, skipping a meal results in an increase in total caloric intake as compared to just eating more frequently throughout the day. A better approach is to eat smaller frequent healthy meals and snacks to keep blood sugar balanced.
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