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hours of being awake, unless you are very sickly, have problems with keeping food down or have
digestion issues.
As soon as you eat a ‘breakfast’, insulin goes up and cortisol invariably comes down, meaning no fat
loss for you! Insulin was never meant to be high in the mornings.
The myth of eating small, frequent meals once again would only apply to those that had trouble with
digestion or keeping food down. You must be in the parasympathetic part of your nervous system to
digest properly.
However, most people are always ‘on’, meaning they are in the sympathetic part of their nervous
system which is designed for survival, not digestion (freeze, flight or fight). Therefore, eating less often
means that you are more likely to be able to eat in relaxed state in which food can be broken down
properly.
As such, the drum-beaters that espouse this small, frequent meal theory (I used to be one of them) are
just regurgitating vomit that they have heard from the industry for years. The only studies that show
any benefit are funded by supplement and food ‘giants’ because, just like any business, they need you
to consume more of their product so that they can make a profit.
I will leave you with this, coming full circle: you are either in an ‘insulin metabolism’ or a ‘glucagon
metabolism’. We want to spend more time in the glucagon metabolism and we can accomplish that by
fasting. Your metabolism does not really speed up or slow down like ‘bro-science’ would have you
believe (not to any significant degree that is).
Go forth and fast my friend.
Upcoming events at Newell Strength and Shout Out
Luke and Naeem were
recently rewarded with
Scholar Athlete awards
at a banquet held by
Rutgers football.
We
were very happy for
them and they deserve
it 100%.
Luke is a
senior at St. Joseph’s
and will be playing at
John’s
Hopkins
next
fall.
Naeem
is
a
senior at Middlesex and
will
be
playing
at