After being told to eat 3 square meals a day all our lives, experts are now warning us that eating breakfast, lunch and dinner may be damaging our health.
(Abigail Carroll, who wrote ‘Three Squares: The Invention of the American Meal’, argues that the idea of eating three meals a day is a European invention from the Middle Ages, supposedly more civilised than eating when you’re hungry.
Now experts are saying that fasting can be good for your health. Maybe they are just getting us ready for food shortages.)