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So we are now off of fasting?

Not that I keep up with the (largely junk) nutritional studies, but this blurb surprised me:

>...In recent years, breakfast skipping has been proven to be associated with obesity,9 impaired glucose metabolism,10 cardiovascular disease,11 impaired cognitive function,12 and even cancer.13 Recently, a prospective study conducted in China found that habitually skipping breakfast is associated with chronic inflammation, as assessed by the C-reactive protein (CRP) concentration.14

Was this funded by the Chinese-Kellogg equivalent?

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> breakfast skipping has been proven to be associated with obesity

Since there’s definitely a cohort that skips breakfast for health reasons, and has a healthy weight as a result, I’d wonder if the data is multimodal and there’s some other group that skips breakfast and is unhealthy that’s overshadowing the heathy modal.

I know someone that never eats breakfast. He does however eat a very big dinner and continue to eat late into the night.

Skipping breakfast is not necessarily a fasting technique, but a consequence of over eating.

Interesting, when I eat a larger number of smaller meals I do tend to be hungrier in the mornings.

Or it’s a consequence of just not feeling like a major meal in the morning. A lot of Europeans eat a pretty light continental breakfast down to a croissant and an expresso.

Not everything has to be a moral failing.

That's what I do, but I'm not over eating (just eating late) and I'm at healthy weight.

I also don't intentionally fast, I just eat when I feel like it.

For example smoking, which is known to be unhealthy, has a relatively high correlation with skipping breakfast.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19638728/#:~:text=Skipping%2...).

>>So we are now off of fasting?

Why not start the day with breakfast and not eat late in the evenings? Eating late is also often linked to poor sleep

False dichotomy. Fasting does not mean you have to eat up until your final waking moments.

I do not consider my lifestyle fasting, though I rarely eat breakfast and typically have dinner 6-7pm. Which is ~6 hours before I go to bed.

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