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> Background: Meal skipping has become an increasing trend of the modern lifestyle that may lead to obesity and type 2 diabetes. That is not what I was expecti

by bckr 4y ago

> Background: Meal skipping has become an increasing trend of the modern lifestyle that may lead to obesity and type 2 diabetes. That is not what I was expecting this to be about. Now I'm thinking, how does this relate to the intermittent fasting trend? Are people meal skipping and calling it intermittent fasting? Or are the people who are meal skipping generally not interested in "wellness community" trends like IF?

lebski88 4y ago
It's just a clumsy sentence. They are trying to say that modern lifestyle leads to obesity, not fasting.
- Brybry 4y ago
  > Eating in misalignment with the biological clock (e.g., skipping breakfast and consuming bigger meals in the evening or eating late at night) is associated with an increased risk of obesity and type 2 diabetes (1, 2). On the other hand, popular trends such as breakfast or dinner skipping are advertised for weight management; however, conclusive scientific evidence to support these suppositions is lacking (3) First sentences of the introduction. > In conclusion, a causal role of breakfast skipping for the development of obesity is not supported by the present data. Last sentence of the paper.
Terretta 4y ago
> Are people meal skipping and calling it intermittent fasting? Yes, including when they snack all the time.
amalgamated_inc 4y ago
Yea, there are people calling "meal skipping" intermittent fasting. IF is pretty vaguely defined at best and all kinds of things fall under that label. E.g. Eat Stop Eat, where IIRC you eat normally every other day, and then you eat only 500kcal or so on the alternate days. So that might be done by skipping a meal every other day. Other people do a daily fasting/feeding window, e.g. 16/8 up to 23/1. The latter basically means you eat only 1 meal a day (unless you somehow manage to eat 2 "meals" within one hour) whereas 16/8 typically means skipping breakfast or dinner. Yet other schemes are 3 days eating/1 day fasting. Still an "intermittent fast." I think IF basically just means "any deviation from the standard 3 squares a day eating pattern."

by bckr 4y ago

lebski88 4y ago

It's just a clumsy sentence. They are trying to say that modern lifestyle leads to obesity, not fasting.

Brybry 4y ago
> Eating in misalignment with the biological clock (e.g., skipping breakfast and consuming bigger meals in the evening or eating late at night) is associated with an increased risk of obesity and type 2 diabetes (1, 2). On the other hand, popular trends such as breakfast or dinner skipping are advertised for weight management; however, conclusive scientific evidence to support these suppositions is lacking (3) First sentences of the introduction. > In conclusion, a causal role of breakfast skipping for the development of obesity is not supported by the present data. Last sentence of the paper.

Terretta 4y ago

> Are people meal skipping and calling it intermittent fasting? Yes, including when they snack all the time.

amalgamated_inc 4y ago

Yea, there are people calling "meal skipping" intermittent fasting. IF is pretty vaguely defined at best and all kinds of things fall under that label. E.g. Eat Stop Eat, where IIRC you eat normally every other day, and then you eat only 500kcal or so on the alternate days. So that might be done by skipping a meal every other day. Other people do a daily fasting/feeding window, e.g. 16/8 up to 23/1. The latter basically means you eat only 1 meal a day (unless you somehow manage to eat 2 "meals" within one hour) whereas 16/8 typically means skipping breakfast or dinner. Yet other schemes are 3 days eating/1 day fasting. Still an "intermittent fast." I think IF basically just means "any deviation from the standard 3 squares a day eating pattern."