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Isn't the whole "3 meals a day" a modern invention? Maybe 1 meal a day is the natural diet of humans..

• tracker1 8y ago
  OMAD (One Meal A Day) is probably more than a lot of primitive man ate. Unless stopping near some fruit or nut bearing bushes or trees during their season that is, where they likely engorged themselves for a while. The rest may have been filled with fishing or hunting or otherwise foraging. More time looking for food than eating it. Given the benefits of fasting and time restricted eating, I'd say OMAD is probably very natural. Dr. Jason Fung is pretty much considered a leading expert on fasting in general, even if his presentation is a bit folksy. There was also a lot of cold war era Russian research on fasting benefits. When eating paleo and more so with keto, I find a lot of people naturally gravitate to 1-2 meals a day once they stop snacking between planned meals. A lot of people aren't hungry at breakfast, and often will lead to one larger and one smaller meal over time. For the past year and a half, my advice to most people is eat clean first. Avoid refined sugars, all grains and legumes and avoid refined seed oils (vegetable oils, anything not cold pressed or animal derived). Vegetarian can be an option above that, but will generally include legumes. It's hard to be vegetarian without refined foods or legumes (common allergen). When cutting starchy foods, and getting a bit more fat, eating lots of veggies or not, once past the hormone driven cravings it's pretty easy. Social queues are much harder though.