Six meals is better than three for weight loss

It is often said that eating small frequent meals is better for your health than three set big meals daily. And the science exists to back this theory.

In 1964 an English researcher found that eating one-sixth of your daily food intake six times a day (rather than one-third three times daily), speeds weight loss, improves glucose tolerance and beneficially impacts cholesterol levels.

More recent studies show that cortisol levels increase when the body doesn't receive fuel over a number of hours (in the form of food intake). Why? Because this lack of energy input forces the body into a starvation mechanism which can cause it to preserve fat and burn expendable muscle. On the other hand, more frequent eating, in moderate doses, helps reduce insulin output for sugar balance, and less cortisol production. Cortisol has been shown to be an influencing factor in metabolic syndrome, which is the name for a group of risk factors linked to overweight and obesity that increase chances for heart disease, diabetes and stroke.

To maintain muscle tone, avoid fat storage and optimise wellness, splitting meals is the way to go. If you're prone to forget to eat, as part of your daily eating plan, Aussie Bodies Perfect Protein provides low-fat, readily absorbed nutritional supplementation, with 91.5% whey protein concentrate. It is free from artificial ingredients and quick and easy to prepare and digest, making a Perfect Protein smoothie the ideal way to keep things running on an even keel.