<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>vidarh</author><text>&amp;#62; The most important factor for keeping calories intake low is making many small meals a day&lt;p&gt;Is there any research that actually shows that?&lt;p&gt;My own personal experience with leangains (intermittent fasting; taking all my calories in an 8 hour window with lunch being my first and biggest meal) is that I find it far harder to overeat that way than with smaller meals. It&apos;s &quot;easy&quot; to fit in a snack between small meals, but after lunch I&apos;m totally sick of food, and it&apos;s hard for me to even meet my macro nutrient goals (I lift weights; my protein intake is high). Often I have to force myself to take in a second meal to meet my calorie needs (edit: because I simply often don&apos;t &lt;i&gt;want&lt;/i&gt; to eat again before the end of my eating window, around 8pm, after my massive lunch at noon).&lt;p&gt;On the opposite end, I see very few people around me that eat &quot;only&quot; two meals. My co-workers for example, might very well only sit down for a meal twice, but they snack constantly. And their &quot;snacks&quot; are often substantially higher calorie than their main meals. When I &lt;i&gt;did&lt;/i&gt; try to diet with many small healthy meals, it was a nightmare - I was constantly hungry and constantly craving food.&lt;p&gt;When I do intermittent fasting, I have hunger pangs in the mornings 2-3 days, and then I stop being hungry in the mornings.</text><parent_chain><item><author>hcarvalhoalves</author><text>I don&apos;t think that works too well. There&apos;s a large factor on satiety which is how hungry, or even happy, you feel at the moment.&lt;p&gt;The most important factor for keeping calories intake low is making many small meals a day, and we won&apos;t solve that changing food, but lifestyle. The obesity epidemic is a direct result of sitting in an office 9 to 5 (or 6,7,8,...) and making two meals a day full of fat and sugar, because you&apos;re craving.&lt;p&gt;When you have a better lifestyle, you naturally gravitate towards better food, because you have time to cook (as opposed to pizza/snacks) or look for good dinner (as opposed to drive-thru), have time to go to the grocery store buy vegetables/fruits more frequently (as opposed to industrialized food which doesn&apos;t spoil), and even time to appreciate food itself making various small meals a day.&lt;p&gt;EDIT: I would like to know why the downvote. The correlation between obesity and office workers is a recurrent research topic.</text></item><item><author>jcampbell1</author><text>I have a solution to the obesity epidemic, that would be realistic to implement.  Right now the factors for what we analyse in nutrition is calories, macro nutrient content, and micronutrient content.   What we really care about is satiation and satiety.  These are words that no one talks about, and but get to the core of the issue.  If I eat this food, how many calories will I consume before feeling full?(satiation).   After eating this food, how long until I feel the need to eat again? (sateity).&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately the research and measurements of these values is thin.  We need to fix that.  We already know things like whole milk better provides satiation and sateity than skim milk, and children that drink whole milk actaully have less obesity than skim milk drinkers.&lt;p&gt;If we just measured and labeled foods with a sateity/satiation index (what we really care about), then people would actually have a chance to pick better foods.  Right now it is damn near impossible to determine if eating eggs and bacon for breakfast is more likely to drive over eating vs cereal.  It can be measured, but we just don&apos;t do it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Dear American Consumers: Please don’t start eating healthfully</title><url>http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2013/05/19/dear-american-consumers-please-dont-start-eating-healthfully-sincerely-the-food-industry/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Mvandenbergh</author><text>&amp;#62;The most important factor for keeping calories intake low is making many small meals a day, and we won&apos;t solve that changing food, but lifestyle.&lt;p&gt;Is that the case? Many countries that have much stricter cultural traditions about when and how much to eat (the French, the Italians) eat 2-3 meals a day. They don&apos;t eat when they feel hungry, the eat when it is eating time.</text><parent_chain><item><author>hcarvalhoalves</author><text>I don&apos;t think that works too well. There&apos;s a large factor on satiety which is how hungry, or even happy, you feel at the moment.&lt;p&gt;The most important factor for keeping calories intake low is making many small meals a day, and we won&apos;t solve that changing food, but lifestyle. The obesity epidemic is a direct result of sitting in an office 9 to 5 (or 6,7,8,...) and making two meals a day full of fat and sugar, because you&apos;re craving.&lt;p&gt;When you have a better lifestyle, you naturally gravitate towards better food, because you have time to cook (as opposed to pizza/snacks) or look for good dinner (as opposed to drive-thru), have time to go to the grocery store buy vegetables/fruits more frequently (as opposed to industrialized food which doesn&apos;t spoil), and even time to appreciate food itself making various small meals a day.&lt;p&gt;EDIT: I would like to know why the downvote. The correlation between obesity and office workers is a recurrent research topic.</text></item><item><author>jcampbell1</author><text>I have a solution to the obesity epidemic, that would be realistic to implement.  Right now the factors for what we analyse in nutrition is calories, macro nutrient content, and micronutrient content.   What we really care about is satiation and satiety.  These are words that no one talks about, and but get to the core of the issue.  If I eat this food, how many calories will I consume before feeling full?(satiation).   After eating this food, how long until I feel the need to eat again? (sateity).&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately the research and measurements of these values is thin.  We need to fix that.  We already know things like whole milk better provides satiation and sateity than skim milk, and children that drink whole milk actaully have less obesity than skim milk drinkers.&lt;p&gt;If we just measured and labeled foods with a sateity/satiation index (what we really care about), then people would actually have a chance to pick better foods.  Right now it is damn near impossible to determine if eating eggs and bacon for breakfast is more likely to drive over eating vs cereal.  It can be measured, but we just don&apos;t do it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Dear American Consumers: Please don’t start eating healthfully</title><url>http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2013/05/19/dear-american-consumers-please-dont-start-eating-healthfully-sincerely-the-food-industry/</url></story>