Remember the story about insulin resistance and all sorts of unnecessary tests? Now it is fashionable yet leptin resistance check.
Leptin - a hormone that is released by adipose tissue. It reduces appetite.
If leptin is small, or it is defective, or the brain has ceased to hear it, then there is hunger, which leads to obesity.
Became fashionable idea that split meals stimulates leptin resistance. In the sense that leptin does not have time to respond to every meal and after the meal you want more to eat.
I can not find the source of the idea.
In fact, there are many mechanisms of resistance. To get into the brain, leptin to cross the blood-brain barrier. This is due to the special transporno system that has a limited bandwidth.
Or resistance is at the receptor level of leptin.
Sometimes leptin levels normal, but reduced sensitivity to it. This is how a diet high in sugar and saturated fat.
That is, the different mechanisms and the determination of leptin level does not always provide useful information. Nothing specific about leptin resistance have not yet decided.
So what is a fractional power? There are conflicting results from various research, but more often it turns out that on the contrary split meals reduces the risk of obesity.
Remember bariatric surgery? There are specially reduce the volume of the stomach. The man eats more and lose weight. If in split meals did not make sense, even from such a surgery would not be good.
With frequent power decreases the energy density of food. Imagine that someone at a time eating potato casserole. Now imagine that this glutton six times per day offer of two potatoes. It will look not so attractive. Glutton wants to dilute the potatoes with something else. Maybe even fruits and vegetables.
