Eating early

They ate when they had food. Be that once a day or when ever. I am not sure that is applicable to this as we no longer live a lifestyle that is hunter-gather.

It is also some what relevant as to why people eat or graze that way. If you for a reason have a limited intake for a reason, such as medical, then eating in smaller portions is viable. Eating in smaller portions with the focus being on nutrition that is needed is also important.

At one point in time I was not able to eat more than about a cup of food at a time. The focus then was on what I was eating and attempting to try to eat more than a traditional amount of times to ensure that I had nutrition that was sufficient to sustain my body.

Different circumstance call for modified behaviours.

 

That's a reasonable assessment for foraging societies. There may have been large meals eaten irregularly but numerous snacks during the day as food items were found along the way. It's still a subject of debate today.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter-gatherer

Foods less glamorous in the eyes of modern Western society such as slugs, snails, roots, mushrooms, insects, rodents, and carcasses of already dead animals were probably eaten regularly. Utilizing the most use of available food probably warranted eating of the internal organs, such as liver and brains, and drinking the blood (similar to Inuit diet and observed occasionally in chimpanzee eating behavior).

 

Eating was a much less controlled, opportunistic venture in the pre-agriculture era. The armchair-easy daily hefty meals of New York strip steaks, dairy butter, and coffee that are currently being touted by some web groups as "paleo" are distant from actual paleo. They are beef-dairy comfort foods of traditional U.S culture and are products of established agriculture and domesticated animals which have little to do with paleo, especially dairy. Not surprisingly, many of the individuals and web groups promoting such diets reside in the U.S. and tailor their definition of paleo to suit their personal taste and comfort zone.

Case in point: a recipe for beer-battered deep-fried fish-n-chips, just like cavemen ate a million years ago at McPaleo's. The beer is gluten-free, so that justifies the meal as paleo.

http://everydaypaleo.com/beer-battered-fish-n-chips/

The recipe for dessert is gluten-free Twinkies smothered with paleo chocolate syrup, just like the ones that cavemen bought at Paleo-Mart.

 

That is pretty cool. Thank you for the link.

 

Anyone who takes the "paleo" in paleo diet literally is a fool. Paleo is just a name given to a certain way of living that shuns processed foods while avoiding sugar and grains. There are certain people within the paleo movement who play on the name to sell books and merchandise, but that has no bearing on the diet itself or its health benefits. I recently watched a video presentation titled "Debunking the Paleo Diet," where some woman spends almost an hour "debunking" the diet by showing that what people ate in paleolithic times is nothing like what people who follow the modern "paleo" diet eat. Well, no shit Sherlock.

 

Point being, people weren't used to eating around the clock like they do today. From an evolutionary perspective, humans never had such easy access to food as they do today. Furthermore, study after study show that people who eat less live longer. I say this is no coincidence. Certainly what people eat is also important.

 

I like to eat regularly, but I am someone who really likes to eat, in other words I see food as more than simply fuel, it is something I really enjoy preparing and eating.

I eat breakfast, lunch and dinner, at pretty much regular times, but I don't often snack these days.

 

It really depends on the person and their metabolism. Some people can eat all the time and not gain weight. Other people eat a handful of fruit and gain weight. But there is really no concrete evidence to show that eating more frequently boosts the metabolism. On the contrary, people who eat throughout the day generally consume more calories, and usually it's the kind that cause fat to be stored. I personally eat one big meal a day and that's good for me. I do understand that not everyone is the same, but it seems to me that the whole six small meals mantra falls in line with the government's recommendation of 6-11 servings of bread, cereal, rice and pasta per day. When a person eats those kinds of foods, it's easy to eat six meals a day because your blood sugar is constantly spiking and crashing and you're always hungry. Eating a high-fat diet such as what I eat, I could not imagine eating six times a day or even being able to. It's not uncommon for me to go almost 24 hours without eating and still having the energy to do a couple hundred pushups or some heavy lifting.

 

I used to try to gain weight when i played hockey a few times a week and i couldnt. I eat much healthier now than i did then. The only difference is i dont exercise as much. At one point i gained a lmost 60 lbs in just those 3 years when i was still eating bad and playing hockey less. Now im about 25 lbs more than those days when my weight wouldnt change. I plan on starting to run more i bet when i do i will be right back to where i was.

 

well i don't exactly HAVE a "regular" time that i eat. i usually make myself something when no one else is around. i tend to get up when everyone else is going to sleep. and go to sleep after everyone else goes off to work. but that's just where i am now. and i'm missing out on the nice weather this time of year in the daytime because of it.

if i lived by myself out in the boonies i'd probably be rising and setting with the sun. and spending a lot less of my time sitting here in front of this thing. but the urban environment that now surrounds me isn't that inviting.

at any rate, i'd probably still be eating, in moderation, when i got hungry, rather then fallowing some kind of arbitrary schedule.