Jamie -- (this method of posting is quite clunky to me -- takes too
long to compose a respone)

Any chance you'd like to put a small wager on this one? Say one
dollar? Dr. Mattson's study will start in late summer or early fall
and will take about six months.

Please see the following for a brief description of three meals being
better than two,

http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/ne...9/ntwin129.xml

As for what those folks

the knowledgeable folks
from misc.fitness.weights have referred to studies showing that the
only number of meals per day that has poorer results for weight loss
than any other meal frequency is eating only once a day.

say, I'd be happy to wager each of them a buck as well (to a maximum
of 100 dollars).

I think we will find that one meal a day is no less harmful than more
meals a day (in terms of harm to the human body). And from my
perspective, we're going to find that it's easier to adhere to one
meal a day than to be forced with the choice on a daily basis of,
"Should I eat? Should I just have a 16th of that?"

Wanna bet on whether it's more harmful?

Yours,

Caleb