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via Alternet:
For most of history, meals were very variable. A medieval northern European peasant “would start his morning with ale or bread or both, then bring some sort of food out into the fields and have a large meal sometime in the afternoon,” Freedman says. “He might have what he called ‘dinner’ at 2 in the afternoon or 6 in the evening, or later” — depending on his work, the season and other factors.
“He wouldn’t have a large evening meal. He would just grab something small and quick. Dinner back then tended not to be as distinct as it has become in the last two centuries.”
And it tended to be eaten in daylight — not because eating earlier was considered healthier, but because cooking, consuming and cleaning up is difficult in the dark or by firelight.
Eat when you’re truly hungry and allow yourself to be hungry. Feel hungry for an hour before you decide to finally eat and, when you do, eat a raw and unprocessed vegetable item followed by a small portion of protein via vegetables or meat and wash that down with two glasses of water. You’ll feel full for hours and hours after without any desire to snack. When you’re hungry…eat again.
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