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Intermittent Fasting Is Gaining Acceptance

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Re: Intermittent Fasting Is Gaining Acceptance

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I've been using the time restricted Intermittent Fasting for the last month or two. I drink coffee in the morning with some creamer but other than that I don't eat until 12:30 (Lunch) and eat again around 7:00PM or 8:00PM at night.

Honestly, Its not all that different than my old eating habits except now I've cut out breakfast (which I only really ate because it is, "the most important meal of the day")

I use to wrestle in college and maintain my weight via exercise but now I work in an office and this is the only diet I've been able to find that allows me to workout a normal amount and maintain a decent weight.

Re: Intermittent Fasting Is Gaining Acceptance

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Why not just say 'I run 3 miles every day' if you're American? Saying 5k (also 10k, 1600m, generally any metric units) implies a race or hard workout.

Because I intentionally set my workout run to be 5 kilometers so that it matches an actual road race. Yes, I'm an American and we generally use miles as a distance unit, but the vast majority of our road races are 5ks.

Yes, but there's only a difference of an eighth of a mile -- less than a minute of running -- and you're going against convention. The very fact that someone was confused in the first place should tell you something is wrong saying "5k."

Re: Intermittent Fasting Is Gaining Acceptance

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That's pseudoscience. Irregular eating is normal for hunter/gatherer societies, and most animals like our ancestors that sit in a scavenger niche. We know (or have good evidence that; I followed a link once and am too lazy to look up the research) our gut has adapted just in the 10k year period after the advent of agriculture. Agrarian societies are built around grain storage and rationing. They absolutely have regul…

I'm getting a bit tired of seeing the "pseudoscience" label slapped on an argument every single time evolutionary biology is mentioned. I understand why one might want to do this occasionally, but I feel the pendulum has swung too far in the other direction, and now the label is being abused. This is basically the new "correlation is not causation" meme equivalent. Yes, correlation indeed does not equate causation in…

Hmm, I'm tempted to think this is an analogue of Muphry's law, where someone correcting someone's grammar is likely to make grammar mistakes himself. (Or, at least, that we are much more likely to notice if he has.)

Getting a large enough number of samples is not enough to show that a correlation implies a causation. It merely demonstrates that a perceived correlation is real and is not the result of random sampling error. Take a few samples, and you'll see a strong correlation between wearing a cast and having broken bones; take an enormous number of samples, and you'll prove the correlation is real, and you'll show the precise magnitude of the correlation with small error bars; but you'll never prove that wearing a cast causes broken bones. To prove causation, you need a causative theory, and evidence that distinguishes it from competing causative theories.

Though perhaps you are thinking of situations where the only plausible causative theories are "A and B are unrelated" and "A causes B".

Re: Intermittent Fasting Is Gaining Acceptance

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because I intentionally set my workout run to be 5 kilometers so that it matches an actual road race. Yes, I'm an American and we generally use miles as a distance unit, but the vast majority of our road races are 5ks.

Yes, but there's only a difference of an eighth of a mile -- less than a minute of running -- and you're going against convention. The very fact that someone was confused in the first place should tell you something is wrong saying "5k."

It's a big difference to me when I'm doing my morning run to put in that extra tenth of a mile beyond 3 miles at the end as I'm measuring my time against my PR. Your experience may vary, especially if you run longer distances.
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