Key points from article :
Eating only one meal/day is associated with high risk of mortality in American adults over 40 years.
Skipping breakfast is linked with higher risk of death from heart disease; missing lunch or dinner is linked to all-cause mortality.
Eating two adjacent meals within 4.5 hours apart is associated with a higher all-cause death risk.
Study analyzed data from over 24,000 American adults between 1999 and 2014.
Around 40% of respondents eat less than 3 meals per day.
Skipping meals results in a larger energy load at one time, which can aggravate burden of glucose metabolism regulation and lead to subsequent metabolic deterioration.
"We recommend eating at least two to three meals spread throughout the day," lead author Yangbo Sun.
Study by the University of Tennessee, published in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.
