Snacking could be harming your health by making your body inflamed
Human bodies have two metabolically different states: fasted (without food) and post-fed. The absorptive post-fed state is a metabolically active time for your body, as well as a time for immune system activity. When we eat, we trigger our immune system to produce a transient inflammatory response. For people who snack throughout the day between meals, our bodies can end up in a near constant inflammatory state. Persistent inflammation inflicts recurrent collateral damage on our body that has been linked to diseases like heart disease and type 2 diabetes. With this in mind, it might be beneficial to condense food into fewer, more satisfying meals, reducing your eating window to ten hours per day or less, and aiming to eat your last meal earlier in the day.