“A person's cholesterol levels may depend not only 
on what he or she eats, but also how often,” according to a report in the British Medical Journal. “Researchers found that middle-aged and older adults who ate frequently throughout the day had lower ‘bad’ cholesterol levels compared with those who tended to down one or two large meals per day. This was despite the fact that the frequent eaters, on average, had a higher calorie and fat intake.”
That’s not an open invitation to snack on junk food all day. Eat sensibly – lots of whole foods, fresh fruits and vegetables, limited saturated fat intake – but eat several small meals rather than one or two big ones.
“The researchers found that participants' total cholesterol counts declined as their eating frequency increased. Those who ate at least five or six times a day had the lowest total cholesterol, on average, while the highest measurements were found among those who dined only once or twice a day. The same pattern showed up for LDL (‘bad’) cholesterol.”
