Check with veterinary science experts. They will confirm that lower animals, like the rat, nibble. They seem to eat all of the time. Actually, we are told that they munch about every two hours ten or twelve times per day. These same authorities will attest that it is possible to humanize, as it were, the rat. Give it three-squares-a-day, it will promptly behave like a human. There will appear some of the most important risk factors for the common killing and crippling diseases. Under such conditions, there is obvious (almost human) adiposity. Very soon there are disturbances in lipid (hypercholesterolemia) and carbohydrate (adiabetogenic) metabolism.

Can one, in a sense, dehumanize the human? What can one expect when man is required to graze or nibble?

Much today is being written about diet/ nutrition. It is also a well-established fact that the principal emphasis is on what to eat. Only scant attention seems to be accorded when/ how. What do the experts tell us about nibbling versus gorging in the human creature?

We wrote to the American Dietetic Association. Their public education initiative, the National Center for Nutrition and Dietetics, sent us a brochure. It never mentioned when to eat.

We examined six recent, well-established standard diet/nutrition texts. For practical purposes, nothing was reported as to how to eat.