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Having a hard time reading and understanding these type of academic study papers.

Sincere request: Can someone who understands do a TL;DR please?

( Usually when I make this request I get downvoted, but happy to take the risk for this one as I am really curious)

It's not exactly a study, more of a review of other papers. The authors state that the timing of the food we eat isn't really that great for us. The provide some evidence based meal timings, and discuss ways that they could implement these changes and the pressures against those implementations.

The biggest spokesperson for intermittent fasting, Martin Berkhan, just released his long awaited book. https://leangains.com He also has tons of blog posts dating back many years on his site that should be a bit more easily accessible than reading the research papers directly.

I guess a TL;DR is that fasting is good for health in most animals.

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