Eat Smaller Amounts More Frequently
...become a ‘grazer’
Eating a smaller amount reduces the stress of digestion on your energy
supply. Eating small meals conserves energy. Give your energy generator a
chance to keep up with digestion by not over whelming it with a large mea l.
(The average meal time in the United States is 15 minutes. In Europe,
the average meal time is 1 to1½ hours. Little wonder Americans suffer
such a high rate of digestive disorders.) When digestion is impaired, yeast
overgrowth, gas, inflammation, food reactions, etc., are the results.
Another reason for eating smaller meals is to prevent the ups and
downs of your blood sugar level, so you end up craving less sugar. As
mentioned earlier, you can overwhelm your digestive capacity. You can also
overwhelm your body’s ability to handle sugar in the blood. Since the body
will not (or should not) allow the blood sugar level to get too high, insulin
and other hormones are secreted to lower the blood sugar. Often times, the
insulin response is too strong and, within a short period of time, insulin
has driven the blood sugar level down. As a result of low blood sugar, you
get a powerful craving for sugar or other carbohydrates. You then usually
overeat, and the cycle of ups and downs continues, resulting in yo-yo blood
sugar results (depression and the lack of energy are all part of this cycle).
Eating a small meal again will virtually stop this cycle.
Eating smaller meals also has advantages for your immune response to ingested food. It turns out that a small amount of food enters the blood without first going through the normal digestive pathway through the liver. As a result, this food is seen by the body not as nourishment, but as a threat and you will stimulate an immune reaction. Normally, a small immune reaction is not even noticed, but if a large amount of food is eaten (or if a food is eaten over and over again) the immune reaction can cause symptoms. Over time, disease develops.
By eating smaller amounts, the size of the reaction that occurs is small and inconsequential. A large meal, and thus a large assault of the immune system, could cause many symptoms of an activated immune system including fatigue, joint aches, flue
like symptoms, headaches, etc...
The is reaction was called the Metabolic Rejectivity Syndrome by the late
nutritional pioneer Arthur L. Kaslow. http://upperroomwellness.com/clients/2906/documents/PDF_of_Help__My_Body_is_Killing_Me.pdf
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