It is the same with most agricultural communities who have to work hard and need to eat often to keep their energy levels high, even here the same practice is followed in my ancestral home ! It is the city dwellers who dont practice this because of changed lifestyle ..
Pay no mind to those who talk behind your back, it simply means that you are two steps ahead !!!
I go often to villages where my relatives are living. Their main profession is agriculture. Because they wake up early in the morning they hold long sticks with a bell on one side. Due to this sound i too wake up and go to the fields along with them. There I used to share their meals which are in more number of times, I came to know the significance of eating more meals in small quantities all the day. Till evening they remain as fresh as they were in the morning when they left home.
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