article_snippet: Now, experts have warned eating breakfast, lunch and dinner may be damaging our health.
article_snippet: Historian Abigail Carroll told  journalist Kiera Butler that these meals are cultural constructions European settlers enforced on Native Americans.
article_snippet: In Historian Abigail Carroll new book, ‘Three Squares: The Invention of the American Meal’, Historian Abigail Carroll said European settlers ate meals at regimented times and considered this more ‘civilised’ than the natives whose eating patterns varied with the seasons, and included fasting.
article_snippet: For example, breakfast is considered the most important meal of the day largely due to advertising campaigns by cereal and juice companies, Historian Abigail Carroll claims.
highlights_snippet: Abigail Carroll wrote 'Three Squares: The Invention of the American Meal'
  Argues three meals a day was a European invention from the Middle Ages .
  