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Glucose and insulin preprandial profiles differentiate meals and snacks

Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, May 31st, 2004

Glucose and insulin preprandial profiles can differentiate between meals and snacks.

According to a study from France, "A physiological distinction between eating occasions may help account for contradictory findings on the role of eating frequency in energy homeostasis. We assessed this issue using a midafternoon eating occasion known in France as the gouter that often consists of snack foods. Among the 24 male subjects, 8 habitually consumed four meals per day, i.e., were usual gouter eaters (GE), and 16 habitually took three meals per day, i.e., usual non-gouter non-snack eaters (NGNSE).

"All subjects were time blinded from lunchtime and had to...

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