I had a Philopshy class once....................?

Question:My professor briefly touched up a subject about eating three square meals a day is bunch of crap. He said something like the whole three meals a day thing was during the industrial rev. to try to get people to pay more money. Is that true? Can anyone tell me the theory and where it came from?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: My professor briefly touched up a subject about eating three square meals a day is bunch of crap. He said something like the whole three meals a day thing was during the industrial rev. to try to get people to pay more money. Is that true? Can anyone tell me the theory and where it came from?

Ya i've always felt that way too, it is a load of crap. Eat when you're hungry and that's it. It would solve north america's obesity problem in a snap. I suggest reading the book Skinny *****, sounds like a joke, but it has very interesting information that's worth thinking about.

Part of the theory is that when humans were first evolving, they didn't always have a constant supply of food like we do now. So, naturally, humans would just eat whenever they could, and never ate 3 meals a day everyday because they were scavangers basically.

tonite my ione round meal will be a peice of crap,. but hows that versus philosophy

Six small meals works better, people are grazers naturally, you professor was right :-)

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