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Impact of breakfast skipping compared with dinner skipping

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Re: Impact of breakfast skipping compared with dinner skipping

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> Meal skipping has become an increasing trend of the modern lifestyle that may lead to obesity I believe them that this is correct but does anyone know why? I thought all the "intermittent fasting" folks were losing weight?

Anecdotally only, I know I come home absolutely ready to murder a steak and a beer etc if I skip lunch. I think it's because you really need to use your mind and not your sentiment of fullness to check yourself afterwards, it just takes a while to register you are full but you are in hungry-eating mode.

Re: Impact of breakfast skipping compared with dinner skipping

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> Meal skipping has become an increasing trend of the modern lifestyle that may lead to obesity I believe them that this is correct but does anyone know why? I thought all the "intermittent fasting" folks were losing weight?

I think they're talking, less about intermittent fasting as an intentional diet, and more about people who just "don't have time" to eat breakfast and skip it habitually. They say the diets were "isocaloric."

Re: Impact of breakfast skipping compared with dinner skipping

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> Meal skipping has become an increasing trend of the modern lifestyle that may lead to obesity I believe them that this is correct but does anyone know why? I thought all the "intermittent fasting" folks were losing weight?

I don't believe them that this is correct - almost all the studies I've seen point to the opposite.

Here's a review of related RCTs that comes to the opposite conclusion: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8469355/

Re: Impact of breakfast skipping compared with dinner skipping

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Is the basic conclusion to skip dinner, and not skip breakfast?

Yes. Lots of other good research out there that suggests Dinner skipping > Breakfast skipping

Is it because you have more awake time after to burn the same calories?

Re: Impact of breakfast skipping compared with dinner skipping

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n=17, so read nothing into this result. Also, what they tested is having no fixed eating schedule. The effects (if any) of skipping breakfast every day consistently are not measured.

i don't get why some studies have so few partipants. How hard is it to recruit people for something like this? We're not talking rare diseases.

Re: Impact of breakfast skipping compared with dinner skipping

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> Meal skipping has become an increasing trend of the modern lifestyle that may lead to obesity I believe them that this is correct but does anyone know why? I thought all the "intermittent fasting" folks were losing weight?

Only by way of anecdotal experience, but if I skip a meal (or worse, two) I tend towards massive overindulgence at a later meal, and I don't have an innate sense for calorie intake estimation. So I will often end up eating far more calories at the later meal than I might have skipped in the earlier one.

Not at all scientific, just 2 cents.

Re: Impact of breakfast skipping compared with dinner skipping

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> Meal skipping has become an increasing trend of the modern lifestyle that may lead to obesity I believe them that this is correct but does anyone know why? I thought all the "intermittent fasting" folks were losing weight?

> Compared with 3 meals/d, meal skipping increased energy expenditure. In contrast, higher postprandial insulin concentrations and increased fat oxidation with breakfast skipping suggest the development of metabolic inflexibility in response to prolonged fasting that may in the long term lead to low-grade inflammation and impaired glucose homeostasis.

So, it sounds like short-term fasting is a good way to stress the system. Long-term stress might lead to bad outcomes though?

Re: Impact of breakfast skipping compared with dinner skipping

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> Meal skipping has become an increasing trend of the modern lifestyle that may lead to obesity I believe them that this is correct but does anyone know why? I thought all the "intermittent fasting" folks were losing weight?

> > Meal skipping has become an increasing trend of the modern lifestyle that may lead to obesity

> I believe them that this is correct but does anyone know why?

This would have been better written as "Because the modern lifestyle may lead to obesity, meal skipping has become increasingly popular".

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