6 small meals a day is a scam?

twistygirl

I went to a diabetes specialist and he told me not to eat 6 meals a day. I am not diabetic yet I am having the symptoms and want to get control over the situation before it becomes a problem. He told me it is not good to work our pancreas that hard. He recommend I eat around 3-4 saucer size meals spaced out throughout the day to lose weight. avoid large meals and avoid over working the pancreas it to needs rest.

Absref71

Generally protein stays in your system for up to 3 hours (casein 6-8 hours) therefor in order to keep a constant supply of amino acids in your blood you need to eat every 3 hours.

Your information is a bit outdated. See my reply in previous thread regarding the dude eating pizza.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10331398

This would indicate over 5 hours for a meal that isn't even that big.

You know who wants you to believe that you only have 3 hours? The people selling protein powder, and the magazines that get income from the protein companies.

Depends on the protein, whey isolate will be out in approximately an hour and a half by design where casein can be up to 8 hours.

Dairy proteins generally take longer (hence cottage cheese before bed as a staple bodybuilding tradition). In that specific example the source of protein was cheese hence the time difference.
Another factor slowing the absorption of protein in this case was the high level of fat.

This will explain the proteins better than I can:
http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/md99.htm

EyeLikeTacos

works for me...but that's because I am hungry every 2 hrs..So I eat like every 2 to 3 hours for sanity purposes

Absref71

works for me...but that's because I am hungry every 2 hrs..So I eat like every 2 to 3 hours for sanity purposes

Ha ha I know how you feel!!