There’s Nothing Magical About Breakfast
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There’s Nothing Magical About Breakfast
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#2Yikes, I hate to be "that" person, but when I pulled up that link it was worse than a paywall. They said I can either subscribe, or whitelist them on my adblocker. No preview of the content or anything.
No thanks, I'll take a pass on the malware this time and just read the comments from people willing to get through on here.
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#3tldr: methodological flaws and conflicts of interest undermine supposed superiority of breakfast
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#5This reads like "I don't eat breakfast, so here's the reasons why I'm right." Studies that support his conclusion, while flawed, are probably right. Studies that oppose it are obviously tainted by various problems.
The fact that research shows that breakfast is actually beneficial for children is hand-waved away because 'reasons'.
This is honestly just a low-quality, cherry-picked opinion piece by someone who really doesn't like breakfast.
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#6Yikes, I hate to be "that" person, but when I pulled up that link it was worse than a paywall. They said I can either subscribe, or whitelist them on my adblocker. No preview of the content or anything. No thanks, I'll take a pass on the malware this time and just read the comments from people willing to get through on here.
No need to hate being that person! The bullshit paywalls are obnoxious! It's good to know I'm not the only one annoyed!
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#7Isn't the first meal that you eat in the day your "breakfast?"
Because wouldn't that be the time you "break" your "fast".
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#8Isn't the first meal that you eat in the day your "breakfast?" Because wouldn't that be the time you "break" your "fast".
Yes from the "words have meaning" point of view, breakfast is unavoidable.
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#9It seems pretty clear our understanding of diet is still in its infancy and news sites need to stop reporting every small piece of diet evidence as advice people should follow. Journalists in general need to do a much better job of explaining how robust new evidence is.
I love this website for health science news and wish there were more like it: http://www.nhs.uk/news/Pages/NewsIndex.aspx
In each article they break down what the actual study was, how robust the evidence is and what it says in the context of other research which you never see in mainstream press.
For example, this article traces a flurry of headlines in the mainstream press about the importance of breakfast back to the original research and critically looks at the evidence in depth: http://www.nhs.uk/news/2014/08August/Pages/Breakfast-not%20t... It nearly always end in "needs further study" but it's sad there's no incentive for news outlets to have more accurate science reporting.
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#10Honestly, fasting for >16 hr/d >> eating breakfast, in my experience. Pet-theory is that you get a lil' neurotransmitter upregulation as an added benefit ;)
Thoughts?