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BTW, is it good to keep yourself hungry for some periods of time during the day? Now as I'm starting feeling hungry I'm not going to eat for quite some hours b

BTW, is it good to keep yourself hungry for some periods of time during the day? Now as I'm starting feeling hungry I'm not going to eat for quite some hours because I guess this is going to be good for health and weight loss. But a colleague of mine says hunger will drop my metabolic rate and I should avoid it by eating regularly.

ekianjo 5y ago
> But a colleague of mine says hunger will drop my metabolic rate and I should avoid it by eating regularly. That's bullshit though. Humans never lived with abundance of food around them until very recently. Your body is made to help you sustain hunger for hours and hours.
- simiones 5y ago
  Sure, but there's no real way of knowing whether that is "healthy" or "unhealthy" or neutral for you. That is, is it perhaps promoting some state in your body that helps with longevity and long life? Or is it eating up precious resources and making you less healthy overall? Or is it totally irrelevant to your general health levels ? Any of these could be true while still being in line with the evolutionary claim. And, of course, ALL of them may be true for different people with different body mass, other health issues, age. For example, your body has evolved such that you can walk or run even with a broken toe. Still, that doesn't mean it's a good idea to run after breaking a toe (if you can at all help it).
  - ekianjo 5y ago
    > is it perhaps promoting some state in your body that helps with longevity and long life? Even if there is some achievable optimum, I seriously doubt it's a simple formula that can be applied to millions or billions of human beings. Complex systems are by nature complex, and we should be wary of very simple solutions and their potential to have strong effects. Also, it's probably impossible to properly design such kind of study that would take in account a large amount of factors, removing co-founding variables and strong enough to achieve a reasonable conclusion over long periods of time.
lm28469 5y ago
Your body isn't really hungry, as in it doesn't need food, it's just conditioned to expect food at regular intervals. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghrelin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghrelin We've never eaten so much food at such intervals, don't worry, you're body is fine, being hungry is not being starved. The three meals a day + snack is a pure social construct and is a relatively recent one too, and seeing how 70+% of people in the west are overweight I'd say it clearly isn't optimal

ekianjo 5y ago

> But a colleague of mine says hunger will drop my metabolic rate and I should avoid it by eating regularly. That's bullshit though. Humans never lived with abundance of food around them until very recently. Your body is made to help you sustain hunger for hours and hours.

simiones 5y ago
Sure, but there's no real way of knowing whether that is "healthy" or "unhealthy" or neutral for you. That is, is it perhaps promoting some state in your body that helps with longevity and long life? Or is it eating up precious resources and making you less healthy overall? Or is it totally irrelevant to your general health levels ? Any of these could be true while still being in line with the evolutionary claim. And, of course, ALL of them may be true for different people with different body mass, other health issues, age. For example, your body has evolved such that you can walk or run even with a broken toe. Still, that doesn't mean it's a good idea to run after breaking a toe (if you can at all help it).
- ekianjo 5y ago
  > is it perhaps promoting some state in your body that helps with longevity and long life? Even if there is some achievable optimum, I seriously doubt it's a simple formula that can be applied to millions or billions of human beings. Complex systems are by nature complex, and we should be wary of very simple solutions and their potential to have strong effects. Also, it's probably impossible to properly design such kind of study that would take in account a large amount of factors, removing co-founding variables and strong enough to achieve a reasonable conclusion over long periods of time.

lm28469 5y ago

Your body isn't really hungry, as in it doesn't need food, it's just conditioned to expect food at regular intervals. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghrelin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghrelin We've never eaten so much food at such intervals, don't worry, you're body is fine, being hungry is not being starved. The three meals a day + snack is a pure social construct and is a relatively recent one too, and seeing how 70+% of people in the west are overweight I'd say it clearly isn't optimal