What you eat affects your cholesterol, but how often you eat might play a role too, according to the July issue of Mayo Clinic Women's HealthSource.
A study recently published in the British Medical Journal found that people who ate five or six times a day had a five percent lower total cholesterol and low-density lipoprotein (the "bad" kind) than people who ate once or twice a day. Even more striking, the frequent eaters ate more fat and calories than the group who ate one or two meals.
The results are biologically plausible. Animals who eat large, infrequent meals show an increase in cholesterol production. It could be that frequent snackers are reaping the benefits of metabolism.
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