Americans Not Following Three Square Meals; Eating All Day: Study

A new mobile app tracked the eating and drinking habit of 150 Americans and found people have forgotten three square meals and have opted to eat all the day long, even more than 15 hours a day.

Details of the study are published in the September 24 issue of Cell Metabolism.

Co-author of the study, Satchidananda Panda, said people are eating for 15 or more hours and most of the calories were eaten after 6 p.m. in the evening.

Panda is an associate professor in the Regulatory Biology Laboratory at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla.

According to assistant professor of clinical nutrition at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Lona Sandon, the new finding confirms the suspect which were already there and moreover eating all the day is not good for health.

Panda added the app is made as a research tool and not designed as a dietary consumer aid.