In the nutritional world, conventional wisdom suggests that the more often you eat, the more likely you are to burn off those calories and control hunger pangs. And so the **tion of eating six or more "mini-meals" each day, just e**ugh to fuel your body and tide you over until your next bites, has often been recommended as a more waistline-friendly dieting approach than eating three larger meals. But science evolves, and the answer to whether you Should eat many mini-meals or three bigger meals is ** longer a straightforward one.