# Is eating two or three big meals in day hard on your body?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-eating-two-or-three-big-meals-in-day-hard-on-your-body/762853>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 14, 2016, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-eating-two-or-three-big-meals-in-day-hard-on-your-body/762853 "2016-08-14T23:13:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![sweat209](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@sweat209](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sweat209)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2016, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-eating-two-or-three-big-meals-in-day-hard-on-your-body/762853/61 "2016-08-18T08:06:08Z")

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> [@QuickSilver](#):
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> Most office environments no longer chain employees to their desks. You can get up and move any time you want. Managers are not your physical therapists. It’s not their job to remind you to get up move every hour on the hour.

The employee will get paid by the hour or the job.

If the demand is on performance the employee will take less breaks to meat that target.

You have two weeks to get this new software up and running!! The employee will panic and take less breaks to meet that deadline.

Taking too may breaks like every hour will come across like lazy or goofing off. Some jobs don’t pay WELL YOU ARE taking a 15 minute walk around the office and than people will not take breaks because they want to get paid and go home. People walking and eating because you have no time for both.

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**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2016, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-eating-two-or-three-big-meals-in-day-hard-on-your-body/762853/62 "2016-08-18T12:32:44Z")

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> [@sweat209](#):
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> But common by mass media sitting on air plane or in car you will have stiffness and feel urge to get up and walk around. But we will not cover this laying in bed or sitting in front of TV too long. Of why you feel this way and what is going on. Only risk and prone to problems down the road of you don’t turn your life around.
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> May be some people body their muscles go into a stiffness mode sooner than other people body just by sitting or laying too long.
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> And medical science cannot explain it or why or what is going on.

There is a ton of material that you can google, read and [inform yourself about the specific negative effects of a sedentary lifestyle.](http://fitness.mercola.com/sites/fitness/archive/2015/05/08/sitting-too-long.aspx)

The bottom line is, if you get stiff and sore just sitting around too much and you feel the urge to move, it behooves you to list to what you body is telling you it needs. This is not a a matter of a lack of research or knowledge on the subject - it’s a matter of you not willing to accept the solution that many here have repeatedly provided.

Take the good advice you’ve been given, or don’t. But you can’t continue claiming that health professionals refuse to address the issue or offer effective solutions.

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**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2016, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-eating-two-or-three-big-meals-in-day-hard-on-your-body/762853/63 "2016-08-18T12:38:06Z")

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> [@sweat209](#):
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> The employee will get paid by the hour or the job.
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> If the demand is on performance the employee will take less breaks to meat that target.
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> You have two weeks to get this new software up and running!! The employee will panic and take less breaks to meet that deadline.
> 
> Taking too may breaks like every hour will come across like lazy or goofing off. Some jobs don’t pay WELL YOU ARE taking a 15 minute walk around the office and than people will not take breaks because they want to get paid and go home. People walking and eating because you have no time for both.

Deadlines notwithstanding, standing up at your desk every hour or two to stretch for a few minutes is not going to brand you as lazy. People are not robots. Stop manufacturing crises where none exists.

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**Author:** ![brainstall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/35a633/32.png) [@brainstall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brainstall)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2016, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-eating-two-or-three-big-meals-in-day-hard-on-your-body/762853/64 "2016-08-18T12:54:54Z")

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> [@sweat209](#):
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> The employee will get paid by the hour or the job.
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> If the demand is on performance the employee will take less breaks to meat that target.
> 
> You have two weeks to get this new software up and running!! The employee will panic and take less breaks to meet that deadline.
> 
> Taking too may breaks like every hour will come across like lazy or goofing off. Some jobs don’t pay WELL YOU ARE taking a 15 minute walk around the office and than people will not take breaks because they want to get paid and go home. People walking and eating because you have no time for both.

I get stiff and uncomfortable if I sit too long. I also have rheumatoid arthritis. I have a reminder on my computer at my sedentary desk job to stand up every hour. I don’t need to take a fifteen minute walk around the office, I just need to stand and move for a minute or so. I’m also allowed to take a bathroom break when I need to, or go into our work kitchen and grab a drink if I want. Sometimes I need to go to the photocopier, or instead of just phoning or emailing a coworker, I will walk over to their desk and ask in person. I am not physically chained to my desk, and I create opportunities to move.

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**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2016, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-eating-two-or-three-big-meals-in-day-hard-on-your-body/762853/65 "2016-08-18T21:43:03Z")

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> [@DSeid](#):
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> The choice is most definitely not longer life expectancy or longer period of disability.
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> And for most of us it is not a choice between being a lower SES manual laborer doing often highly repetitive difficult physical work for many hours a day often under difficult and potentially toxic conditions for decades or being sedentary at a desk all day living a higher SES lifestyle.
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> The simple fact is that just avoiding being completely inactive, let alone achieving very moderate levels of exercise, as part of a desk based job, very modestly increases life expectancy and very dramatically increases the years of disability-free life expectancy - of both physical and cognitive disability.

Yes but how many hours a day of standing are people who worry about the impact of desk jobs asking for? If you are spending 10 hours a day standing, even if it is at a high SES job, that could cause serious problems when you hit your 50s.

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**Author:** ![sweat209](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@sweat209](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sweat209)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2016, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-eating-two-or-three-big-meals-in-day-hard-on-your-body/762853/66 "2016-08-18T23:40:10Z")

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> [@QuickSilver](#):
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> There is a ton of material that you can google, read and [inform yourself about the specific negative effects of a sedentary lifestyle.](http://fitness.mercola.com/sites/fitness/archive/2015/05/08/sitting-too-long.aspx).

That not want I’m asking and getting at.

I was asking the explanation of inactivity-body muscles of why sitting or laying too much you get stiff!! Why you body get stiff and feel urge to move and why some people can sit or lay more than others before you get body stiffness.

Not long term use of sanitary lifestyle of risk factors or the dangerous of sitting or laying too much.

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**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2016, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-eating-two-or-three-big-meals-in-day-hard-on-your-body/762853/67 "2016-08-19T00:11:54Z")

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I must ask. Are you running your posts through a translator app?

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**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2016, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-eating-two-or-three-big-meals-in-day-hard-on-your-body/762853/68 "2016-08-19T12:36:34Z")

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> [@sweat209](#):
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> That not want I’m asking and getting at.
> 
> I was asking the explanation of inactivity-body muscles of why sitting or laying too much you get stiff!! Why you body get stiff and feel urge to move and why some people can sit or lay more than others before you get body stiffness.
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> Not long term use of sanitary lifestyle of risk factors or the dangerous of sitting or laying too much.

So what you’re asking is, “Why are some people better couch potatoes than others?”

Interesting question.

As with so many things in life, I believe the answer lies in: practice!  
After all, if there is ever something worth not doing, it is certainly worth not doing right. As such, I recommend you continue to practice a _sanitary_ [sic] lifestyle. Perhaps, one day, it will become an Olympic event.

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**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2016, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-eating-two-or-three-big-meals-in-day-hard-on-your-body/762853/69 "2016-08-19T16:00:05Z")

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> [@Wesley\_Clark](#):
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> Yes but how many hours a day of standing are people who worry about the impact of desk jobs asking for? If you are spending 10 hours a day standing, even if it is at a high SES job, that could cause serious problems when you hit your 50s.

I have no idea how many hours a day of standing are people who worry about the impact of desk jobs are asking for but do you have any basis for your belief that standing 10 hours a day would cause serious problems? Do surgeons, who stand most of their working days, have many more problems in their 50s than radiologists or pathologists, who sit most of the time at work? Anecdotally I think not.

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**Post date:** [August 19, 2016, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-eating-two-or-three-big-meals-in-day-hard-on-your-body/762853/70 "2016-08-19T17:14:38Z")

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There are absolutely problems that some people who have to stand all day have. Not sure how common those problems are, though.

I’m pretty sure that moderation works in both directions here.

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**Author:** ![sweat209](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@sweat209](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sweat209)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2016, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-eating-two-or-three-big-meals-in-day-hard-on-your-body/762853/71 "2016-08-19T21:17:43Z")

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> [@QuickSilver](#):
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> So what you’re asking is, “Why are some people better couch potatoes than others?”

Absolutely No.

Start of thread reads.

\*\* Also why do people get body stiffness from laying in bad for long time or sitting down and watching TV for 4 hours or more and not moving? \*\*

The medical science of inactivity-body muscles causing a medical symptoms of body stiffness and urge to move.

The body central nervous system is responding to some stimuli of inactivity-body muscle causing stiffness. What is going on here?

> [@](#):
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> Why are some people better couch potatoes than others?"

Not even close.

No, why candidate A can sit 4 hours before inactivity-body muscles start to cause stimuli response to brain of symptoms of body stiffness and urge to move.

VS candidate B can sit 6 hours before inactivity-body muscle start to cause stimuli response of symptoms of body stiffness and urge to move.

What is going on with muscles and nerves that it is causing body stiffness and urge to move?

Are some peoples brain reacting to the inactivity-body muscle use? Than some other people where by their brain is reacting to inactivity-body muscle less?

Are the inactivity-body muscle causing a pinched nerve causing body to stiffen?

What is going on here causing the medical symptom of body stiffness and the urge to move?

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**Author:** ![sweat209](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@sweat209](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sweat209)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2016, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-eating-two-or-three-big-meals-in-day-hard-on-your-body/762853/72 "2016-08-19T21:42:35Z")

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> [@QuickSilver](#):
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> As with so many things in life, I believe the answer lies in: practice!  
> **After all, if there is ever something worth not doing, it is certainly worth not doing right. As such, I recommend you continue to practice a _sanitary_ [sic] lifestyle. Perhaps, one day, it will become an Olympic event**.

If I read every time sentence said sedentary lifestyle and risk factors in this thread I would be rich man.

It like asking How to drive car out of the drive way onto the street. And all the words are blobbing out are how to drive.

Or like saying why going two days with out sleep you have medical symptoms XX and XY and all the words blobbing out are that sleep deprivation is bad for you over and over.

I had no idea people here where in sports training for upcoming Olympic who can sit the longest or lay the longest.

I also had no idea how.

> [@](#):
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> **Also why do people get body stiffness from laying in bad for long time** or sitting down and watching TV for 4 hours or more and not moving?

reads.

**why can’t I sit for a long time.**

Or **I love to sit.**

**Why can’t I sit like this other person?**

When all I was asking was a medical science explaining of inactivity-body muscles causing a medical symptoms of body stiffness and urge to move.

Of body central nervous system is responding to some stimuli of inactivity-body muscle causing stiffness. What is going on here.

Are some peoples brain reacting to the inactivity-body muscle use faster than other people:eek::eek: causing some people to sit logger or shorter than other people. Base on how your brain is reacting to inactivity-body muscle? Some people brain reacting more than other people so they will feel body stiffness and urge to move in 4 hours?

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**Author:** ![sweat209](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@sweat209](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sweat209)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2016, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-eating-two-or-three-big-meals-in-day-hard-on-your-body/762853/73 "2016-08-19T21:45:41Z")

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> [@DrFidelius](#):
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> I must ask. Are you running your posts through a translator app?

Would this help?

What is body stiffness? It is not pain.

Is it muscles tight up? Where you feel stiff and urge to move?

Is your brain reacting to muscle not being use?

After xx time not used muscles than your muscles will tighten up causing stiffness?

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**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2016, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-eating-two-or-three-big-meals-in-day-hard-on-your-body/762853/74 "2016-08-19T23:16:33Z")

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> [@sweat209](#):
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> Would this help?

Wow, hell yes. You’re incomprehensible. Seriously, read one of your posts out loud to another person (shit, even to yourself). Wut?

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**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2016, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-eating-two-or-three-big-meals-in-day-hard-on-your-body/762853/75 "2016-08-20T02:15:59Z")

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> [@DSeid](#):
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> I have no idea how many hours a day of standing are people who worry about the impact of desk jobs are asking for but do you have any basis for your belief that standing 10 hours a day would cause serious problems? Do surgeons, who stand most of their working days, have many more problems in their 50s than radiologists or pathologists, who sit most of the time at work? Anecdotally I think not.

> **[What You Need To Know About Back Pain](https://www.webmd.com/back-pain/understanding-back-pain-basics)**
>
> Whether it's from an injury or has developed over time, find out what can cause back pain, what you can do about it, and when to see a doctor.

> [@](#):
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> Two hours of standing on the job is not associated with problems, but “a longer period is likely to have detrimental effects,” said study lead author Maria-Gabriela Garcia, a doctoral candidate within the department of health sciences and technology at ETH Zurich in Switzerland.

> **[Complications of prolonged standing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_complications_of_standing)**
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> The complications of prolonged standing are conditions that may arise after standing, walking, or running for prolonged periods. Many of the complications come from prolonged standing (more than 60% of a work day) that is repeated several times a week. Many jobs require prolonged standing, such as "retail staff, baristas, bartenders, assembly line workers, security staff, engineers, catering staff, library assistants, hair stylists and laboratory technicians".
> The basic physiological change t Th...

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**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2016, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-eating-two-or-three-big-meals-in-day-hard-on-your-body/762853/76 "2016-08-20T02:21:13Z")

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> [@sweat209](#):
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> Absolutely No.
> 
> Start of thread reads.
> 
> \*\* Also why do people get body stiffness from laying in bad for long time or sitting down and watching TV for 4 hours or more and not moving? \*\*
> 
> The medical science of inactivity-body muscles causing a medical symptoms of body stiffness and urge to move.
> 
> The body central nervous system is responding to some stimuli of inactivity-body muscle causing stiffness. What is going on here?
> 
> Not even close.
> 
> No, why candidate A can sit 4 hours before inactivity-body muscles start to cause stimuli response to brain of symptoms of body stiffness and urge to move.
> 
> VS candidate B can sit 6 hours before inactivity-body muscle start to cause stimuli response of symptoms of body stiffness and urge to move.
> 
> What is going on with muscles and nerves that it is causing body stiffness and urge to move?
> 
> Are some peoples brain reacting to the inactivity-body muscle use? Than some other people where by their brain is reacting to inactivity-body muscle less?
> 
> Are the inactivity-body muscle causing a pinched nerve causing body to stiffen?
> 
> What is going on here causing the medical symptom of body stiffness and the urge to move?

Mairzy doats and dozy doats and liddle lamzy divey.

> [@sweat209](#):
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> If I read every time sentence said sedentary lifestyle and risk factors in this thread I would be rich man.
> 
> It like asking How to drive car out of the drive way onto the street. And all the words are blobbing out are how to drive.
> 
> Or like saying why going two days with out sleep you have medical symptoms XX and XY and all the words blobbing out are that sleep deprivation is bad for you over and over.
> 
> I had no idea people here where in sports training for upcoming Olympic who can sit the longest or lay the longest.
> 
> I also had no idea how.
> 
> reads.
> 
> **why can’t I sit for a long time.**
> 
> Or **I love to sit.**
> 
> **Why can’t I sit like this other person?**
> 
> When all I was asking was a medical science explaining of inactivity-body muscles causing a medical symptoms of body stiffness and urge to move.
> 
> Of body central nervous system is responding to some stimuli of inactivity-body muscle causing stiffness. What is going on here.
> 
> Are some peoples brain reacting to the inactivity-body muscle use faster than other people:eek::eek: causing some people to sit logger or shorter than other people. Base on how your brain is reacting to inactivity-body muscle? Some people brain reacting more than other people so they will feel body stiffness and urge to move in 4 hours?

I’s de b’y dat builds de boat, And I’s de b’y dat sails 'er.

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**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2016, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-eating-two-or-three-big-meals-in-day-hard-on-your-body/762853/77 "2016-08-20T05:21:07Z")

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> [@Wesley\_Clark](#):
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> [Upper & Middle Back Pain: Symptoms, Causes, & Risk Factors](http://www.webmd.com/back-pain/news/20150728/standing-all-day-at-work-it-may-take-toll-on-health)
> 
> [Complications of prolonged standing - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_complications_of_standing)

No offense but that is some pretty damn weak clickbait. The first looked at a total 26 individuals and found, shockingly, that they were physically tired out after standing all day. Experts agreed that _changing positions_ is a good thing. As stating that study “doesn’t prove that a job that requires prolonged standing will harm your health.” It actually does not even provide any data that suggests it. The reasonable conclusion is made: “Basically, the body does not like to have the same posture or load placed on it continuously, so change is always good.” Which yes applies to standing and sitting both.

No doubt standing still 10 hours a workday would not be ideal. Probably better than sitting still those 10 hours but the best is actually moving some. Pretty sure that the people who worry about the impact of desk jobs are not asking to be able to stand still 10 hours a day.

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**Author:** ![sweat209](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@sweat209](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sweat209)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2016, 9:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-eating-two-or-three-big-meals-in-day-hard-on-your-body/762853/78 "2016-08-21T09:52:02Z")

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> [@DrFidelius](#):
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> I must ask. Are you running your posts through a translator app?

> [@Ambivalid](#):
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> Wow, hell yes. You’re incomprehensible. Seriously, read one of your posts out loud to another person (shit, even to yourself). Wut?

What is wrong with my English that people cannot understand what I’m saying and my question is not clear what it is.

I know there been number of other threads here by me where I posted where people where having hard time understanding what I’m saying.

Problem with my noun, adjective, verb, preposition, punctuation, run on sentence or fragmented sentence here?

If run on sentence and fragmented sentence are main problem that is some thing I could work on.

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**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2016, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-eating-two-or-three-big-meals-in-day-hard-on-your-body/762853/79 "2016-08-21T12:22:30Z")

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That it’s not English, or at least not English as we’re used to seeing it, is what is wrong with your English; mind you, I have similar problems with some people for whom English is supposed to be a native language but who mix it a lot with another one and do not realize it. Strange grammar (does your native language not have definite and indefinite articles?), confusion between words which are not normally confused (“meat” instead of “meet”). For example, let me try to rephrase your last post:

What is wrong with my English that people cannot understand what I’m saying and my questions are not clear?

I know there have been a number of other threads where people were having trouble understanding my posts.

Is it a problem with my vocabulary, run on sentences, sentence fragments, something else?

If it is run on sentences and sentence fragments I can work on that.  
If we knew what other language(s) may be influencing your writing, anybody here who happens to be familiar with people of a similar background may be able to help you better.

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**Post date:** [August 22, 2016, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-eating-two-or-three-big-meals-in-day-hard-on-your-body/762853/80 "2016-08-22T12:50:23Z")

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I’ve heard body builders and professional people that would know debunk this as myth.

1. Any difference is believed to be insignificant.
2. Exercise is far more important than meal frequency concerning metabolism.
3. Eating healthy is far more important than meal frequency - period!
4. Eating too frequently could result in poorer diet if not careful. I.e. Planning 6 meals per day could be a logistical nightmare for some.

In fact there’s some that believe the exact opposite is true. 1 meal a day or even fasting a day or so is believed to have some benefits by some. The “Warrior Diet” is the most common thing I’ve heard this referred to.

Personally I find dental hygiene and eating healthy much easier when eating 1-2 meals a day. I try to live an active lifestyle when possible (Requiring a fair share of calories,) so 1 meal a a day feels like too much food at 1 time for me. I’ve considered creating a diet plan off of some of my unusual health habits one of these days.

- In dieting I’ve found its easy to get “information paralysis.” For example I decided it would good to try out something along the lines of being a vegetarian based on the health benefits. But then wait a second, the “Paleo Diet” insists that meat is absolutely necessary!

If there’s an undisputed “best way” I haven’t heard about it yet. - I think almost everyone can agree to avoid processed foods and eat as many natural veggies as possible. On that note, I had my first garden this year. - Everything wanted to eat my Okra and it’s leaves. - Tomatoes practically took care of them selves. (Watered on occasion if, it didn’t rain for a few days)

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