BS!
When I entered high school because of a weight height and age formula I couldn’t play varsity football my first year, I was only 14.
I was 6-0 high and 165# so I ate 5 meals a day and worked out 3 days a week and put on 20 pounds in 30 days and qualified for varsity ball.
There’s a major difference between chowing down on five big meals a day to pack on the pounds and staving off hunger by consuming five modest meals a day to lose weight.