16 Eating Little and Often Will Stoke Your Metabolism

Despite all the talk about “burning”, “incinerating” and “torching”, your metabolism is not a furnace. You won’t stoke it with hourly kindling and smother it with a hunk of wood. Multiple analyses and reviews conclude that meal frequency will make little difference to your metabolic rate. What you eat matters more. Meanwhile, a Japanese study noted that fasting provokes “a metabolically active state”. Put that in your furnace and smoke it.