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Eating fewer (but larger) meals throughout the day trains your body to produce less of the hormone. Science has now revealed that the advice to eat small, frequent meals to “stoke the metabolic flame” is bunk:

Using a modified Mediterranean diet focusing on fresh vegetables, fruits, raw unsalted nuts, eggs, olive oil, fish, and grass-fed beef, Jacka and team saw patients with major depression improve their scores by an average of about eleven points on a sixty-point depression scale. By the end of the trial, 32 percent of patients had scores so low that

The intermittent fasting movement is based on the premise that a daily routine of 3 full meals and snacks, turns our bodies into “sugar burning machines.” This essentially means we burn the sugar in our bodies for energy. The problem with this is that we experience inconsistent energy levels all through the day.

For these reasons, I place no restriction on the consumption of saturated fats when they are contained in whole foods, or when they are used for occasional higher-heat cooking.