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Eating three meals a day doesn't automatically make you healthier or leaner — your body can keep building muscle even if you don't eat all day.

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Early Time-Restricted Feeding Reduces Appetite and Increases Fat Oxidation but Does Not Affect Energy Expenditure in Humans

Randomized Controlled Trial
Human
2019 Aug

This study looked at when people eat and how it affects hunger and fat burning, but it didn’t check if muscles keep building after exercise without eating often, so it doesn’t tell us anything about the claim.

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