I'm aware frequent small meals is often recommended. It's just baseless. I'm not just talking about pasta and sugar. Snacking and many meals is bad, period.

Fasting periods raise growth hormone levels, snacking and insulin suppress growth hormone. You should fast an hour after lifting for this reason. If you eat immediately after lifting you shut down a large surge of growth hormone. (Bet your exercise articles didn't mention this either.)

No culture has ever done six meals a day. It's not going out on a limb to suppose we're made to eat two or three times a day.