People who eat fewer meals are more likely to under-report how much they eat, which could make it harder to study their true eating habits accurately.

Even when men ate the same number of total calories, those who ate fewer meals were still more likely to be obese, meaning it’s not just about how much they eat, but when and how often.

Men who eat only three meals or fewer a day are more than twice as likely to be obese compared to men who snack and eat more often, even when they eat the same total amount of food.

Older people with more muscle tend to eat more, but this link gets weaker as they get older.

Even when researchers accounted for people eating lots of sweets and junk food, those who ate fewer meals still had higher obesity rates, meaning the problem isn’t just about what they snack on.

People who eat more often during the day tend to drink less alcohol relative to their total food intake.