Skipping breakfast might help you lose weight
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Skipping breakfast might help you lose weight
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Re: Skipping breakfast might help you lose weight
#2Skipping breakfast is part of the "carb backloading" diet. Seems to work well.
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#3The more interesting question I think is not whether skipping breakfast might help lose weight, it is whether the weight loss is due to lower overall caloric intake, the timing of digestion reducing bioavailability, the timing of when sugar became available to the body impacting targeted fat burn or somehow enhancing the body's ability to burn fat cells, or maybe the types of "breakfast" foods skipped, or just general impact on dietary choices,... or maybe it was...
Obviously I think the study is asking too high-level a question, and barely skimming the surface of how things work. Feels like the same sort of thinking that produced the alternative finding.
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#4There's a 'natural/evolutionary' argument to be made in favor of skipping breakfast too: most animals do not store food and need to hunt or forage as and when hunger arises. This requires a certain amount of time and activity. So it's unlikely that animals have evolved a need to eat first thing in the morning.
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#5But no-one really cares about weight - they care about body composition. That is key to understanding all of this, and it's missing from these results. Who cares if you lose weight if it's muscle wasting away? Who cares if your weight stays the same but you're losing fat and gaining heavier muscle?
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#6This is why it's hard to take the field of nutrition seriously.
"New study finds peach fuzz makes you lose weight"
5 years later
"New study finds peach fuzz makes you gain weight"
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#7But no-one really cares about weight - they care about body composition. That is key to understanding all of this, and it's missing from these results. Who cares if you lose weight if it's muscle wasting away? Who cares if your weight stays the same but you're losing fat and gaining heavier muscle?
But certainly they collected body composition data in the course of the study, it just doesn't make the headlines?
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#8This is why it's hard to take the field of nutrition seriously. "New study finds peach fuzz makes you lose weight" 5 years later "New study finds peach fuzz makes you gain weight"
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Re: Skipping breakfast might help you lose weight
#9There's a 'natural/evolutionary' argument to be made in favor of skipping breakfast too: most animals do not store food and need to hunt or forage as and when hunger arises. This requires a certain amount of time and activity. So it's unlikely that animals have evolved a need to eat first thing in the morning.
Are you aware how broad a term "animals" is? The term includes hawks, ants, turtles, snakes, trout, leeches, sharks, jellyfish, lions, coral, alligators and many more. It includes all vertebrates, but it is not limited to vertebrates. The diversity of eating habits in animals defies easy generalizations. Maybe jellyfish do skip breakfast, but that does not tell you whether humans should skip breakfast.
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#10Eating less helps you lose weight. News at eleven. Seriously, how difficult is it to understand that? Once when I was in the US I had some pancakes for breakfast and on the side was a huge chunk of white mass that looked like a scoop of vanilla ice cream. I took a large bite and oh boy.. it was butter. Plain butter. That chunk alone was about half of the calorie need of an average young person. Oh, and then there was the maple sirup, chocolate, and artificially sweetened orange juice. No wonder the US is so obese.