Who decreed we should have 3 meals a day ?!
Who decreed we should have 3 meals a day ?
Why not 2 ? One big one in the morning, and one huge one around 4 ? Why 3 - breakfast, lunch, dinner ? Where did this originate ?
Answers:
I am sure that it evolved out of a natural rhythm of hunger cycles rather than some sort of decree. I am sure that in the hunter gatherer days we ate more like you describe. Eating as much as possible at every meal because who knows when the next one is coming.
Once we started planting our own food and had control over it we most likely started eating when hungry and it happens every 4 or 5 hours its natural buddy.
Nobody decreed... it's a matter of long way- back and back in history- part of tradition and nutrition. In this way, it reduces hunger and have proper meals too! If you eat good and nutritious meals perhaps.
I don't know where it originated.
they did
Today it is the Nutritional industry of the medical field.
But it is plain common sense.
So it had to start with civilization
I'm sure workers made some demand on the owners or employeers then labor unions.
My guess as an evoluntionist it started with Homo erectus or Homo habalis (not sure how to spell.). Eat too much food at one sitting you throw up. Balance. Humans actually need more alot energy and other animals because if their large brains. Other animals run around in fields and chase other animals while some guy sits and passively watches TV and still has to eat three meals a day.
I don't know how it started, but I don't follow it. Most days I only eat twice. If I'm not hungry, meal time can't make me eat.
Probably started for workers who wanted a break on job, some people are just hungrier than others.