Jesus, talk about misunderstanding and going off on a tangent, almost nothing that has been said here is relevant.
Firstly lets get the obvious right, I said 6 smaller meals vs
ONE meal, it will make a HUGE difference, I didn't say 3 vs 6, I was making a
point.
THe point being, eat 3000 calories in one go at midday, you'll store lots as fat, you'll lose a lot through a big fat dump, and you won't have a good supply of protein in your blood at 1-7am when your body is working its hardest to repair.
get a freaking grip, either way I STILL wasn't commenting on the 3 vs 6 meals, I was talking about TIMING of your meals, and that IS important.
As I said, if the average person eats at 8pm, and 7-8am, then you're going a LONG time without food and you'll have a low supply of protein overnight when every single study, EVER has said you repair/build more at night/resting than at any other time, by many many times over.
The point being, its important to eat something right before bed, because if you normally eat at 8pm, and go to sleep at midnight, in 4 hours you'll basically have used/filtered out all the protein from your meal(or most of it) at that stage. So giving your body the ability to digest slowly and slowly release protein into your bloodstream as your body is healing is important. Its not, zomg, you'll die without it important, but its why really try all that hard at the gym if you screw up the single most important thing, rest.
mrthingyx, without wanting to sound completely rude, and belittling, degree's don't mean an awful lot, information changes constantly, research that would have gotten you a first a decade ago can get you a failure now, whats commonly accepted(often through lazyness of lack of opposing opinion) can be accepted as correct, while being completely wrong.
Remember, for the last 40 years if you did any degree/project/research suggesting that fat = bad, you wouldn't be called on it, when infact the idea that fat is bad for you is finally being accepeted as utterly utterly rubbish.
As is the incredibly simplistic notion of "supplements, you don't need them if you eat a well rounded diet with everything you need" well whoop-de-doo, that ignores the fairly simple facts that, we don't eat well rounded diets in general, that mass and intensive farming is clinically proven to reduce the quality of the food compared to where it used to be so eating the same "well rounded" diet today, as 20 years ago, let alone 50 years ago actually nets you quite a different total of protein, fat, quality fats, nutrients and vitamins. Considering 90% of RDA's are completely and utterly made up, with very little significance based on them, and most of them essentially being bare minimums, no one really knows clinically, what the minimum intake of everything is to even be considered a well rounded diet.
then the corker
What supplements can do is alter the dynamics of energy metabolism, etc. within the body, allowing it to be more effcient in the way it actually stores 'energy' as such. Whey protein is something that does this.
My god is that badly writen, supplements can alter the dynamics of energy metabolism, all supplements, really, ALL of them. Its called generalisation, suggesting that all supplements alter the dynamics of energy metabolism, is just plain wrong.
Personally I'll just automatically disagree with someone who maintains supplements are just that, additions to the diet, thats incredibly generalisation again, and wrong.
Is carb a supplement, no, what about once you've hit your "well rounded diet" quota of carbs, what would you call the excess carbs, a, I dunno, SUPPLEMENT to your diet.
Supplements are nothing more than food basically, with food described as anything you take which contains vitamins, nutrients or fat/protein/carbs. If you choose to eat 4 peppers, or a vitamin pill, both are food, if you've already taken a vitamin pill, you're SUPPLEMENTING your intake of vitamin C by having a few more peppers.
People get caught up in this word, supplement, and exclude them as a proper dietary choice, which again, is rubbish.
The other problem being, as I stated, theres incredibly little clinical evidence on the VAST MAJORITY of vitamins, minerals, nutrients on just how much we need a day, without knowing how much vitamin E a day is "healthy" I find it incredible that anyone can designate the cut off point between well rounded, and supplement and choose to discount a pill of vit E as a source but having as much as you want from another source as completely fine.
Its a stigma basically, its illogical, and quite literally I've never seen someone who expresses that opinion explain why why a real food can't also be a supplement in the stuations I've highlighted.
Then we're back to the VERY generalised "big protein intake gets passed out through the kidneys", a quite literally incorrect statement.
"big protein intake in ONE MEAL at ONE TIME can lead to a large portion of it being wasted". You however didn't state that, you didn't state what level is considered big, or the timeframe.
Someone who eats 250grams of protein in 6 equally spaced out meals 4 hours apart(who also works out to the point the body needs a lot of repair work done and has a supple of all the other macro/micro nutrients required to build muscle and provide energy) can probably absorb and use a very high portion of that. Someone who east 150grams in one meal will likely pee out a vast majority of it.
Then again, as I suggested you didn't mention what "big" intake is, lots of people are eating less than 50grams a day, not eating very healthily, someone lifting weights and working out hard will find themselves overtrained and not repairing well, whats big for someone training, 150grams, 200, 300, 400grams? Completely dependant on the person.
