When do you eat?

Slovak Republic
February 26, 2007 12:07am CST
Do you eat when it is time for lunch or supper or do you eat only when you are hungry? Our family eats at regular times everyday but I have watched one "so called" expert say that we should only eat when we feel hungry and not because the clock says so. What do you think?
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4 responses
• India
8 Mar 07
In their course of life people usually eat at intervals which is fixed.like breakfast,lunch,dinner or supper.and if one its at these interval there is hardly any possibility that one will find himself hungry.The intervals are such that if you eat at those time the food automatically gets digest and you feel hungry at next fixed interval of time.but yes its true that one should eat only when one feels hungry.its not that clock gets satisfies.its the stomach.if one is hungry he enjoys more taste in the food also.
• Slovak Republic
8 Mar 07
yeah i guess so, it's just a biological clock thing. you're body bases it's way of thinking on when it felt like eating or something right.. you fell asleep at the time you are used to sleeping same goes right?
@18101989 (700)
• India
8 Mar 07
when i am hungry or when it's the time to eat but generally when i am angry
@MrNiceGuy (4139)
• United States
26 Feb 07
WEll, you have to base your eating on the clock at least a bit because you have to eat while you are awake and you happen to get hungry in the morning since you don't eat at night. Then you get hungry again in the middle of the day and then again hours later at night. I eat lunch between 1130 and 130 and dinner between 530 and 730.
@babyjane (1390)
• Philippines
8 Mar 07
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