In Part I of learning about how eating more meals does not speed up your metabolism, we covered many research studies that showed there was no benefit for so called accelerated thermogenesis with more meals. While eating 6x a day can work to lose weight, it’s not necessary and in some cases may actually cause MORE harm to your long term weight loss efforts.

Here’s what some other extremely smart fitness writers (not that I am calling myself extremely smart, just saying these people know their stuff hands down) also …

Did you know you may need Statins? Who you may ask….well of course everyone! So called Ground-breaking research has done it again and every major news media outlet is just happy to promote this good news and save the world. You need drugs. That’s right….statins are essential to life now it seems. Oxygen a close second. I think Huey Lewis just got a new deal to sing “I want a new drug”. Oh so happy news. Maybe next Halloween can all go dressed up as sick zombie like creatures addicted to statin …

This is one of the biggest myths and misconceptions that I hear all the time in mainstream media and people trying to tell me how to eat healthy. Ask any trainer, nutritionist, doctor, diet guru…or whoever and they will probably all tell you the same thing “You need to eat small meals through out the day to speed up/keep your metabolism going”.

Really? Is that how it works? Our metabolism accelerates based on meal to meal frequency during a day? I don’t think so.

In fact, next time you hear someone say that …