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How does this reconcile the advice that eating more often (say, 6 times a day) but with smaller portions helps increase metabolic rate and thus helps with weight loss?

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I think that's just conventional wisdom/wishful-thinking propagated forward (like so much dietary advice): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19943985 (cited in http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/23/health/23really.html).

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