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What are smaller meals?
Doctors and nutritionists recommend eating smaller meals throughout the day and not over eating. Could you give me an example of small meals by giving a diet chart routine using indian foodstuffs that i should eat? Thanks.
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Hello,  small meals are refer to eating in define quantity. You should eat 3 basic meals like breakfast lunch and dinner. And small snack like a fruit, a juice, a small bowl sprouts, etc. Your breakfast should contain one serving of any home made low fat snack. Where as lunch and dinner can be with Roti, dal, vegetables and salads.
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