We all know that we need to eat healthy. But recently, scientists seem to arrive at a consensus:
Meal timing is maybe as important a factor in diet as food quality.
Primitive humans living before agriculture have evolved to eat only what they hunted or gathered. This meant big meals with large intervals of time between them. We have co-evolved with this pattern of eating and seem to have a lot of systems designed to take advantage of this. We are not built to eat all day.
Restricting food to a few large meals per day with nothing but water, tea, or black coffee in between seems to reduce body fat, improve hormones and reduce the probability of getting a lot of modern diseases.
A starting point would be to eat three meals per day, with nothing in between. They should also be within a set interval of time (6, 8 hours, maybe 10-11, depending on your situation).
As an example, if you have breakfast at 9 AM and dinner at 5 pm you should not eat anything until the next day's breakfast.
This allows the body to activate all of the fat burning and cleansing machinery.
You can also do longer fasts of 24-72 hours for extra disease protection and fat burning.
So if you're unwilling to change your diet, you can give a shot to modified meal timing. Or you can use better meal timing to supercharge your already great diet.
This is a complicated subject and is heavily researched right now, but you can find a lot of of information online about why and how all this works.
Some people I'd recommend following are: Dr Eric Berg, Dave Asprey, Dominic d'Agostino, Peter Attia and Thomas DeLauer.
Or drop a comment below if there's anything you're interested about. Maybe I can help!