Experts outlined several brain-focused benefits of smaller, more frequent meals: Reducing blood sugar swings: Large meals, especially carb-heavy ones, can trigger spikes and drops in blood sugar, ...

In general, as someone without diabetes, you want your fasting blood sugar (when you haven’t eaten for at least eight hours) to be below 100 mg/dL. You want your spikes to be below 180 mg/dL, to lower ...