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Effect of Breakfast Skipping and Late Night Eating on BMI with Type 2 Diabetes

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Re: Effect of Breakfast Skipping and Late Night Eating on BMI with Type 2 Diabetes

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This seems similar to intermittent fasting but with seemingly the opposite effect, I wonder what I'm missing.

Intermittent fasting is deliberate and actual fasting. Skipping breakfast often (but not consistently) probably lead to a greater feeling of hunger, and when combined with perhaps not being hungry in the morning because of the night eating mentioned it's no fasting either.

Re: Effect of Breakfast Skipping and Late Night Eating on BMI with Type 2 Diabetes

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post #3

This seems similar to intermittent fasting but with seemingly the opposite effect, I wonder what I'm missing.

This doesn't necessarily sound like intermittent fasting. "normal" eating means breakfast to dinner (let's say 8 PM). This is just shifted to let's say lunch to midnight (late night).

Re: Effect of Breakfast Skipping and Late Night Eating on BMI with Type 2 Diabetes

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IMHO, anything to do with Body Mass Index (BMI) is fake science. Ironically, this writeup is also from nih.gov: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2930234/

BMI is often inadequate to evaluate an individual, but it has proven effective for measuring across larger sample size, since its coarseness will swing both ways and more or less cancel out.

Re: Effect of Breakfast Skipping and Late Night Eating on BMI with Type 2 Diabetes

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This seems similar to intermittent fasting but with seemingly the opposite effect, I wonder what I'm missing.

People who consciously do IF tend to eat healthier, while people who skip breakfast purely because they're lazy tend to eat less healthy food. I don't believe that eating time affects anything. Our caveman ancestors did not eat muesli immediately after waking up, and yet they did not have diabetes.

Re: Effect of Breakfast Skipping and Late Night Eating on BMI with Type 2 Diabetes

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Besides the mention of BMI by other users, I'd also ponder the study's applicability because of its focus on men and women in a city in Saudi Arabia, where cultural norms are likely at odds with more western sensibilities (e.g. access to sport amenities for women patients, etc.).
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