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> It can be good advice with additional conditions. For example I now eat whenever I feel hungry but only for the half of the time that I'm alive. For the other

> It can be good advice with additional conditions. For example I now eat whenever I feel hungry but only for the half of the time that I'm alive. For the other half I just don't eat at all. The only exception I make is for tea and occasional coffee with milk. You're effectively saying "It's good advice if I ignore it half the time", with your positive outcome stemming from the time spent ignoring it and not eating altogether. It's silly and harmful advice. Feelings are inherently irrational, we shouldn't advise people to act on them. When it comes to diet, what you eat largely governs how it makes you feel. The "feeling hungry" part is emergent, root cause largely being the diet.

scotty79 2y ago
After consideration, I think you are right. I think the essence of this advice is to avoid eating for social, customary or emotional reasons. So what I wrote basically is totally unrelated because, you can get away with all of that and eat for any stupid reason if you restrict yourself to doing it just half of the time.
- rramadass 2y ago
  No, he/she is not right. See my rebuttal here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42144113 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42144113
rramadass 2y ago
You have taken my initial comment in isolation and twisted it into something negative which was not at all what i meant. Diet is an implicit requirement as i mention in my previous comments here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40978488 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40978488. Also see others here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42138469 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42138469 > Feelings are inherently irrational, we shouldn't advise people to act on them. This is silly and wrong. Emotions and Feelings are fundamental to Mental Health and by extension to Physical Health. See the research by Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett and her book How Emotions are Made. The Mind at Work: Lisa Feldman Barrett on the metabolism of emotion - https://blog.dropbox.com/topics/work-culture/the-mind-at-work--lisa-feldman-barrett-on-the-metabolism-of-emot https://blog.dropbox.com/topics/work-culture/the-mind-at-wor... > The "feeling hungry" part is emergent, root cause largely being the diet. This is silly and puts the cart before the horse. Raw Hunger is the root cause and search for food is the consequence from it. Humans have evolved to eat and digest a wide variety of foods but if you only eat harmful ultra-processed food as a lifestyle choice that's on you and needs to be changed. In addition to a proper diet, one should only eat when feeling raw hunger which can be helped with techniques like Time-Restricted Eating/Intermittent Fasting etc.

scotty79 2y ago

After consideration, I think you are right. I think the essence of this advice is to avoid eating for social, customary or emotional reasons. So what I wrote basically is totally unrelated because, you can get away with all of that and eat for any stupid reason if you restrict yourself to doing it just half of the time.

rramadass 2y ago
No, he/she is not right. See my rebuttal here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42144113 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42144113

rramadass 2y ago

You have taken my initial comment in isolation and twisted it into something negative which was not at all what i meant. Diet is an implicit requirement as i mention in my previous comments here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40978488 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40978488. Also see others here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42138469 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42138469 > Feelings are inherently irrational, we shouldn't advise people to act on them. This is silly and wrong. Emotions and Feelings are fundamental to Mental Health and by extension to Physical Health. See the research by Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett and her book How Emotions are Made. The Mind at Work: Lisa Feldman Barrett on the metabolism of emotion - https://blog.dropbox.com/topics/work-culture/the-mind-at-work--lisa-feldman-barrett-on-the-metabolism-of-emot https://blog.dropbox.com/topics/work-culture/the-mind-at-wor... > The "feeling hungry" part is emergent, root cause largely being the diet. This is silly and puts the cart before the horse. Raw Hunger is the root cause and search for food is the consequence from it. Humans have evolved to eat and digest a wide variety of foods but if you only eat harmful ultra-processed food as a lifestyle choice that's on you and needs to be changed. In addition to a proper diet, one should only eat when feeling raw hunger which can be helped with techniques like Time-Restricted Eating/Intermittent Fasting etc.