If you dump the majority of your calories into your system at one time of day, you impose a heavy instantaneous metabolic burden on your system. Your digestive enzymes and hormones, particularly insulin, have a lot of major work to do in a short time interval. The body is comprised of a whole set of intersecting and complementary functions, which vary over a 24 hour time-span. You function best when these cycles are mellow, shallow, and frequent, instead of a single jolt, after which your body spends the remainder of the day trying to catch up. Of course, the fact that small meals taken throughout the day are better for you than infrequent monster meals does not mean that a Thanksgiving extravagance is harmful.
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