Let me explain, because many patients and friends have talked about this when chatting with me:

What is it? Let me tell you a story:

For a friend of mine, the most difficult thing in the world is what to eat at noon. For him, the meaning of life is to eat. The food in the canteen is the same, you can't finish it, and then you order takeout crazily. Until one day, take-out didn't feel anything delicious, so he simply stopped eating. Then he came up with a theory that the interval between meals was 12 hour healthier.

Going from one extreme to the other, the result is gastric ulcer after half a year. At first, I kept silent. It doesn't matter if I eat two meals. I've lost a lot of weight, but my symptoms are getting worse!

Finally, under my persuasion, he resumed his three-meal diet, and his gastric ulcer healed after one month.

This story is just an example and has no statistical significance. Then I'll just have to start looking up the information.

A long time ago, humans ate when they were hungry, without specifying when to eat, just like primitive people. It was not until the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period that humans began to eat at designated places. At that time they still ate two meals a day. The sun comes out for a meal and the sun goes down for a meal.

However, rich people go to bed late and have no shortage of food. When they are hungry at night, they need to have another meal. Gradually, eating three meals became a symbol of power. So slowly, the warring States nobles began to eat three meals a day. It is worth mentioning that, for this reason, many ancient emperors had a four-meal system.

Gradually, the folk custom of eating three meals began after Wei and Jin Dynasties, but it really became popular in Sui and Tang Dynasties.

The ancients didn't have a three-meal system, so their stomachs were not good? I don't think so. With so many ancient samples, I think the data is still statistically significant.

Let's take a look at the baby's milk, which is also supplied on demand. This is human instinct. It's just that we have forcibly changed it to three meals a day since childhood.

Therefore, Dr. Wang, an orthopedic surgeon, believes that we must eat as needed before we can say which way is suitable for human beings. However, if you are forced to change from an early age, you will want to keep it if you get used to how to eat. Either way, there is no right or wrong. If the gastrointestinal tract is well developed, the flora is balanced and forced to change, gastrointestinal problems will occur.

I have retired for five years now, and I am old.