When did humans get into the habit of eating 3 meals a day?
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As humans moved toward agriculture-based communities, people more frequently ate twice a day, usually in the morning and early evening. Ancient Greeks typically ate first meal of the day at around noon and then had dinner in the evening. Ancient Roman soldiers ate a small breakfast early in the morning and had their second meal after sunset.
It seems that the practice of eating three meals a day became popular with the industrial revolution, when workers gained a midday meal break as part of their standardized work day. This is when people started eating breakfast, lunch/dinner, and supper.
Today, many health and fitness experts advise eating 5-6 small meals per day.
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as for me... i'm still can't get that habit... i go to work late and spend it on snacks and coffee.. so i eat one meal which we call it dinner :P
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I think the dietary pattern of three meals a day is a product of regimentation. People got on fine with one or two meals a day for thousands of years and then they got jobs with workdays (which split a day into three parts) and the next thing you know they were talking about lunchentach. The spread of the middle meal isn't well documented, but it probably follows the spread of the modern workday which by the 19th Century was standard for urban Europeans. It's in the early 19th Century that 'lunch' emerged as a word.
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Unfortunately this orthotrophy book does not seem to have adequate sources for their claims. I would not trust this source as it looks more like pseudoscience to me. Eating practices have varies widely throughout history and even if a single group did have a certain practice, to make claims of uniform practice for whole civilizations such as the Greeks or Romans is to make a hasty generalization. And making claims about ancient hunter-gatherer societies is purely speculative.