Small Frequent Meals or Intermittent Fasting: Which is Better?
Intermittent fasting and eating small, frequent meals are often promoted as ways to “boost” metabolism, or how many calories your body burns each day. In reality, your metabolism isn’t something you can significantly speed up with meal timing alone. However, both of these eating patterns could be helpful for weight loss.
Meal Timing and Metabolism: Metabolism refers to all the ways that your body converts food into energy to support breathing, thinking, and other essential bodily processes. As you age, your body uses fewer calories to complete these functions, and you may gain weight.
People may try to increase their metabolism or boost the number of calories their body burns by changing how they eat. Eating does increase caloric burn slightly through digestion, which is called the thermic effect of food.
Excerpted from Health
