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There’s Nothing Magical About Breakfast

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Re: There’s Nothing Magical About Breakfast

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If anybody is telling you to eat when you are not hungry, check to see if they are selling something.

This is the kind of thing that sounds right but makes absolutely no sense at all Exactly because the sense of hunger is not correlated with the exact need to eat is that we have obesity. Eating only when hungry sounds like a good idea but then you get (usually fat) people complaining they are hungry all the time. An average adult will spend around 12h (and probably more) physiologically fine without food, until its g…

I think you missed the point - the way I understood parent, he tried to point out that many of the articles about "healthy" food consumption are financed by food industry and should be more or less ignored.

Re: There’s Nothing Magical About Breakfast

#142
There's nothing magical about the way the author dismiss breakfast either. In the end it's an article where the author says that "breakfast research is flawed" and "I don't like breakfast".

I'm disappointed on how the author missed intermittent fasting which, even not being scientific consensus, has many studies in favor of not breaking the fast.

Re: There’s Nothing Magical About Breakfast

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This 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…

>The fact that research shows that breakfast is actually beneficial for children is hand-waved away because 'reasons'. As a casual observer of this topic, it seems like breakfast is necessary for humans who want to grow: kids and people adding muscle mass. If you want to lose weight or maintain breakfast can probably be skipped.

>people adding muscle mass.

There is a very large following of Intermittent Fasting in the bodybuilding community. Tens/hundreds of thousands of consistent weightlifters who do not eat breakfast or lunch and put on impressive mass. Your body doesn't care about daily fluctuations, calories in/calories out, count your macros. Fin.

So I disagree with your casual conclusion.

Re: There’s Nothing Magical About Breakfast

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There's nothing magical about the way the author dismiss breakfast either. In the end it's an article where the author says that "breakfast research is flawed" and "I don't like breakfast". I'm disappointed on how the author missed intermittent fasting which, even not being scientific consensus, has many studies in favor of not breaking the fast.

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Re: There’s Nothing Magical About Breakfast

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Spanish also has a similar term as desjejum and breakfast: "desayuno"

I love the sound of that word. Is it the one people use like "breakfast"?

Yes. And like the french word it literally means to stop fasting.

Re: There’s Nothing Magical About Breakfast

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Yikes, 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.

I've survived 21 years on the internet with no AdBlock, until 1 week ago a horrible TalkingPointsMemo link that autoplayed shit all over the place was the final straw.

But using AdBlockPro, I had no issues with this link.

Re: There’s Nothing Magical About Breakfast

#150
Heh. I'm a breakfast eater now.

I used to not eat breakfast. I'd be starving at 11:45am when it was time to go out to lunch with my coworkers.

I decided to make some changes in my diet so I wasn't so hungry for lunch and could make better choices. Started eating a healthy breakfast every morning.

I was starving by 12:00pm.

So, for my anecdatel point, I think it has more to do with when your body expects food than actual hunger.

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