There’s Nothing Magical About Breakfast • Hacker News Board

Re: There’s Nothing Magical About Breakfast

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Post by geoka9 » Mon, May 23, 2016, 3:11 PM UTC

DominikR wrote: post #26

As somebody who does weight lifting I can say from my experience that I performed much worse back then when I didn't take the time to eat a breakfast before going to the fitness studio. I actually even had to stop the training sometimes because I had to vomit. (probably too low blood sugar) During that time I made very slow progress. Since I started to eat breakfast 2-3 hours before training I never had any issues an…

Fasting before working out may be good for cutting. But taking some BCAA or protein is recommended anyway. Bulking is unrealistic though.

Re: There’s Nothing Magical About Breakfast

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Post by fs111 » Mon, May 23, 2016, 3:11 PM UTC

I can highly recommend "The diet myth" by Prof. Tim Spector, who does a good job in explaining why there are so many myths about nutrition, food, digestion etc:

http://tim-spector.co.uk/

Re: There’s Nothing Magical About Breakfast

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Post by Jtsummers » Mon, May 23, 2016, 3:12 PM UTC

NTripleOne wrote: post #20

gravypod wrote: post #7

Isn't the first meal that you eat in the day your "breakfast?" Because wouldn't that be the time you "break" your "fast".

I always refer to the first meal of the day as breakfast, it never fails to amuse me how genuinely upset people can get over it too.

I'm glad I'm not the only one. I don't eat unless I'm hungry or going to be working out later (or have just worked out, which usually means I'm hungry). So Sundays, my lazy day, I sometimes don't eat breakfast until dinner. Sometimes not at all, because I just don't get hungry (on a particularly lazy Sunday especially). So when I go out with my friends on a Saturday or Sunday night it might be my first meal of the day. They're usually shocked.

Re: There’s Nothing Magical About Breakfast

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Post by maxerickson » Mon, May 23, 2016, 3:13 PM UTC

seanwilson wrote: post #9

It 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…

I'd say it is at least a ways into adolescence. Understanding vitamins and trace minerals was a pretty big step forward.

Re: There’s Nothing Magical About Breakfast

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Post by rco8786 » Mon, May 23, 2016, 3:13 PM UTC

tptacek wrote: post #25

wmccullough wrote: post #14

Why does everything have to be so polarized anymore?

"Breakfast isn't magical" isn't a polarized position. The polar opposite of "breakfast is magical" is "breakfast is evil", a position this article is at pains not to take.

I'm not sure that "evil" is the opposite of "magic"

Re: There’s Nothing Magical About Breakfast

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Post by fragsworth » Mon, May 23, 2016, 3:14 PM UTC

hawleyal wrote: post #27

cmurf wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes from the "words have meaning" point of view, breakfast is unavoidable.

There are other points of view?

That "words have other meanings", like breakfast would be what you eat within X hours of waking up.

Re: There’s Nothing Magical About Breakfast

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Post by stonemetal » Mon, May 23, 2016, 3:14 PM UTC

gravypod wrote: post #7

Isn't the first meal that you eat in the day your "breakfast?" Because wouldn't that be the time you "break" your "fast".

No, just because breakfast is a compound word doesn't mean it must exactly match the two words it is composed of. Spearmint isn't mint leaves tied to a spear, Carhop doesn't involve jumping in any way, and understand doesn't involve standing anywhere let alone under anything.

Re: There’s Nothing Magical About Breakfast

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Post by streblo » Mon, May 23, 2016, 3:14 PM UTC

fs111 wrote: post #32

I can highly recommend "The diet myth" by Prof. Tim Spector, who does a good job in explaining why there are so many myths about nutrition, food, digestion etc: http://tim-spector.co.uk/

FiveThirtyEight had an article about this recently: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/you-cant-trust-what-you...

Re: There’s Nothing Magical About Breakfast

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Post by atonse » Mon, May 23, 2016, 3:15 PM UTC

I am just so unsettled by those broken yolks (I like my egg sunny side up), that I couldn't read the rest of the article.

Re: There’s Nothing Magical About Breakfast

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Post by pessimizer » Mon, May 23, 2016, 3:15 PM UTC

douche wrote: post #19

steego wrote: post #15

I'm sure there are many breakfast food manufacturers who would vehemently disagree with this article. I recall hearing a story about how the father of modern public relations and propaganda (Eddie Bernays) played a key role in making sure that bacon and eggs were a part of an American breakfast. You can watch him in this interview explain how he created and manipulated a poll of 5,000 physicians to convince the publi…

Bacon and eggs is still better than a sugar-blasted bowl of breakfast cereal, which it seems we are thankfully getting away from as the default breakfast.

Of course that's not what they taught us in school, which was that we were supposed to have a pile of carbs with more carbs sprinkled on top and wash it down with carb juice and milk. Bacon and eggs would kill you by clogging your heart with pan drippings.