(Eating 9 meals per day may…) Suggesting that eating little and
often is healthier for us, experts have said that we should eat
as many as nine meals every day. They say this may help lower
blood pressure and cholesterol, and even encourage weight loss,
the Daily Mail reported. "Splitting food intake so we eat many
times a day will have metabolic benefits over and above the same
food consumed in a small number of meals," the paper quoted Dr
Susan Jebb, head of the Medical Research Council's Human
Nutrition Research Unit, as saying. In one of the latest
studies, scientists from Imperial College, London, compared the
diets of more than 2,000 people from the UK, Japan, China and
the U.S. While they all had the same calorie intake and food,
half the participants ate fewer than six times a day, while the
remainder ate more than six times. Results show the first group
had a significantly higher systolic blood pressure â€” the
pressure that blood exerts on vessels while the heart is beating
â€” compared with the mor