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Anonymous
I had a med student friend talk about the benefits of fasting, and it seems that there's a reasonable amount of scientific evidence to get behind this. However, in reading the article, there's one thing I had to flag:
Theres a reason that people who eat a huge breakfast or lunch are falling asleep hours later, because digestion takes a ton of energy.
Well, obviously, if your straw man is 'eating a pound of sausage at breakfast will slow you down,' the answer is 'yes.' However, if you're trying to make the slightly more sensible point that skipping breakfast is better than not skipping, this is wrong; there's been some studies (including one that made the news very recently) that eating a full breakfast tends to make you weigh less, in the long run. So while I agree with the guy's general argument, I have to strongly disagree with this point.
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