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[–] 36 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Why is 3 meals a day the goal? I thought the 'breakfest is the most important meal of the day' was just a commercial series. I usually don't have time for breakfast and I don't really feel like I'm missing anything.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The goal is having the possibility to eat three meals a day.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    The article kinda conflicts the two. It talks about financial situation, but then it just asks "Do you eat three meals a day?", and doesn't ask you to clarify why. I for example can describe my financial situation as precarious, as they want me to do in the article, but it doesn't mean I can't afford food.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I like the summary on Wikipedia:

    Present professional opinion is largely in favor of eating breakfast,[62] but skipping breakfast might be better than eating unhealthy foods.[71]

    I.e. you should eat breakfast, if possible, but not any product sold as a breakfast product.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    I eat when I feel hungry and that usually means only dinner, sometimes lunch or breakfast but rarely all 3. I'm pretty low activity so it feels enough for me. I think eating purely out of habit at a certain time is a bad thing but might just be my anecdotal experience.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago*

    I mostly agree with you, but I think that any habit can have a strong effect, so if you do have habitual healthy breakfasts it's probably just about as healthy as skipping. I like skipping btw, up until I was around 25yo I just ate whenever I felt hungry, then I did some casual fasting, now my hunger impulse has all but lost it's power and I like it like that, it feels more relaxed somehow.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    also it depends on what you actually do: if you're a manual labourer then yeah get a hearty breakfast, if you sit at a desk just eat a sandwich or something.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Honestly I'm growing more and more to think that healthy food is subjective. Like if you're overweight yes calorie dence food is probably not that good for you. If you're underweight you need every calorie you can get. If you're working out all the time yet again you need every calorie you can get and have the ideal chemical compounds to fule mussel growth. Before the 2000s militarys were rejecting people because they were underweight. Now they are rejecting people left and right for being overweight. I'm starting to wonder if people in the 19th century considered calorie dence food healthy for being calorie dence.

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