Too Easy Pete, I don't eat breakfast and only eat a sandwich for lunch. Skipping the sandwich for lunch is easy as sometimes work gets in the road and I don't eat it till I'm on the way home after 5pm.

Be a different story if I was sitting at home all day looking at the fridge or I could hear a packet of chips calls from the cupboard.

It's not difficult to fast 24 hours. Have dinner at say 7pm, go to sleep later that evening and then skip breakfast & lunch.

Cambodge said..

elmo said..
..... (whilst stationary).

Relative to....?

Oooooooo!

My brother.

It is certainly not pseudoscience.

Whilst the knowledge that fasting is beneficial to health has been around since Hippocrates it is only in recent years that modern science has verified the actual physiology behind it. Oshinori Ohsumi was awarded the Nobel prize for his discoveries of the mechanisms of autophagy in 2016 :

www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2016/press-release/

I reckon that this knowledge will, in years to come, be recognised as one of the most important "discoveries" in the field of human health. I've long held the opinion that people are eating so much more than they need to and that the consequence is inevitably poor health.

There is a slight hitch when it comes to widespread dissemination of this knowledge and that is the fact that it is not something which benefits the food industry whose goal is profit through consumption of as much as they can sell.

oldtelefart said..

japie said..
........ I've long held the opinion that people are eating so much more than they need to and that the consequence is inevitably poor health.

It's not a matter of opinion. The evidence is visible all around us every day, grotesque mounds of lard puffing and chafing and waddling along, often barely out of their teens. Their weekly shop is 28 liters of Coke, 4 kilos of chips, 2 kilos of biscuits, and a packet of six sausages.

The gaps get filled with daily visits to Maccas, and the only real exercise is putting on their shoes, going from the couch to the fridge, and trying to clean their mountainous behinds after their morning dump.

One of them could feed a family of cannibals for a month.

Brutally honest

Mobydisc said..
There are no fatties in a famine.

That's where this all started. some researchers were surprised to discover that a group of people came out of a mild famine healthier than average. They were expecting the reverse.

petermac33 said..
Gold......


It's not a matter of opinion. The evidence is visible all around us every day, grotesque mounds of lard puffing and chafing and waddling along, often barely out of their teens. Their weekly shop is 28 liters of Coke, 4 kilos of chips, 2 kilos of biscuits, and a packet of six sausages.

The gaps get filled with daily visits to Maccas, and the only real exercise is putting on their shoes, going from the couch to the fridge, and trying to clean their mountainous behinds after their morning dump.

One of them could feed a family of cannibals for a month.

The scary thing about this is that chips are very cheap, coke is sort of cheap, biscuits are cheap. Its a shame that fruit and vegetables are far more expensive. Its hard to push people into better diets when junk food is so cheap and good food is not.

I remember when my kids were littler, helping out in the canteen at the soccer club on training nights. Bottle of water $1.50, can of coke or fanta, $1.00