Short eating intervals may not significantly impact disease risk, but long intervals without meals followed by spikes may be detrimental.

“I think that the evidence is really out on meal frequency and disease risk. And I, you know, if you want my...my gut feeling is that if you keep your eating interval fairly short, it may not matter very much. But when your interval is very long, so you're getting, you know, a meal impact and then a long time with no meal. And then, you know, throughout the day all those spikes might be more detrimental.”