“When people are told to 'eat many small meals,' what they may actually hear is 'eat all the time,' making them likely to respond with some degree of compulsive overeating. It's no coincidence, I think, that obesity rates began rising rapidly in the 1980s more or less in tandem with this widespread endorsement of more frequent meals.”

American physician and author

Andrew Weil is an American physician and author known for promoting integrative medicine. Born in 1942, he became a prominent voice for combining standard medical care with selected complementary and alternative therapies. He founded the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine in 1994. Weil has also written widely read books on health, healing, nutrition, and ageing, and several of them reached bestseller lists.