How meal times affect your health
The time of day you have a meal, how fast you eat your food and even how much you chew it can affect how many calories you get from it. The key to maintaining a healthy weight, accepted wisdom suggests, is to count the calories we eat against the calories we expend. It makes sense – energy in versus energy out. Sounds simple, doesn't it? But this way of thinking misses an important truth: not all of our food's calories are the same.
Melissa Hogenboom explains.
