Sentences with phrase «larger meal pattern»

The program uses the larger meal pattern of the federal Child and Adult Care Food Program to ensure adequate portions for all participating kids, and sticks to finger food - type items that are easy to deal with.

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One of the better tricks for doing this is to change your meal pattern from the three large meals per day to six medium - sized meals per day.

Despite this limitation, the available research has consistently refuted the popular belief that a grazing pattern (smaller, more frequent meals) raises energy expenditure compared to a gorging pattern (larger, less frequent meals).

The researchers found that «1) ingestion of a large number of calories at one time (binge eating) impacts metabolic parameters even when total calories and macronutrients are appropriate for weight; 2) the timing of energy intake is an independent determinant of the diurnal rhythm of leptin secretion, indicating a relatively acute affect of energy balance on leptin dynamics; 3) the mechanism of exaggerated insulin secretion after a binge meal remains to be determined, but may be related to the altered diurnal pattern of leptin secretion; and 4) as most binge eating episodes in the population are associated with the ingestion of excess calories, it is hypothesized that binge eating behavior is associated with even greater metabolic dysfunction than that described herein.»