
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 18, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- When it comes to weight loss, what seems to matter most is how often and how much you eat, rather than when you eat. That’s the conclusion of a new study that focused on the eating habits of about 550 adults. For six months, all were asked to use a phone app to report both the timing and size of all their meals.“What we found is that, on average, the more meals people ate throughout the day, or the more large meals they ate throughout the day, the more likely they were to gain weight over time,†said study author Dr. Wendy Bennett.By contrast, “eating more small meals during the day was associated with more weight loss,†added Bennett, an associate professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, in Baltimore.They found...