THE IMPORTANCE OF EATING 5 TIMES A DAY

Hi guys! Here we are one more day to talk about health and good nutrition. Today we are going to focus on the importance of eating 5 times a day.

Our body is like a machine that is always consuming energy. It needs fuel to work well, and this fuel is the food.

One of the main reasons why it is important to have five meals a day is because if we ate only three times, we would be spending a lot of time between food and lunch. Our body would need more food and therefore our hunger would increase until the time of the next meal. This increases our anxiety and we are likely to eat compulsively and eat more food.

Also, this situation will cause our body to accumulate more fat, as hunger is a symptom of lack of food to continue our activity. To prevent this fault from happening again, the body will keep reserves, and that is that our metabolism adapts to our habits. If the body does not receive the fuel it needs from the food, it will take it from the reserves, and therefore when we eat, it will save for future periods of need.

Finally, if we are full of energy, we will perform better during the whole day both at school and in extracurricular and sports activities.

In the following video you can find more information and tips to eat better see the video