Comments by "SmallSpoonBrigade" (@SmallSpoonBrigade) on "Intermittent Fasting Is Killing You! – Says Fortune Magazine" video.

  1. The issue here is that it definitely can be a problem, but that's mostly the more extreme versions that are more of an anorexia thing than a fasting thing. Everybody fasts every day, the relevant question is how long is optimal. The only way not to fast would be to engage in polyphasic sleep and insist on eating during each period of waking. That being said, humans evolved to fast, just like most other animals, meals weren't as easily obtained as they are today, and being able to go potentially weeks without eating was essential. I wouldn't personally recommend going that long, but people can go a lot longer without a meal than the medical community is willing to acknowledge and intermittent fasting is less damaging than the typical calorie restriction diets that get pushed.
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  2. Which is unfortunate as you cannot exercise enough to make meaningful progress losing weight. The exercise portion is for the purpose of maintaining muscle mass. It's the reduction in calories that ultimately results in the weight loss, but there's some pretty definitive research going back to the '40s that points out that you can't just cut 10% of your calories from each meal and expect to lose weight, your body will literally start starving the brain to keep that from happening.
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  3.  @n4ughty_knight  That's not really true, if you control for the improvements in childhood mortality and the women dying during childbirth, there hasn't been that much change in life span of humans in millennia. The main reason why life expectancy has been going up is simply that fewer people are dying in childhood or what are now preventable diseases and fewer people are starving due to a lack of food.
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  4. There was definitely some luck there as not being vaxxed is asking for trouble. That being said, people sort of assume that you need to get a weeks worth of nutrition in 21 meals spread evenly across the entire week and there's no reason to believe that. You do have to be a bit careful as some nutrients are water soluble and do need to be consumed more regularly, but that's easy enough.
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  5.  @susanmclane7781  To make matters worse, the "food" that's prevalent now is so highly processed as to make it very hard for our brains to know how much to eat and to crave far more of it than we should be eating.
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  6. That is the Chaanist way. I eat when I'm hungry, drink when I'm thirsty, work when I'm idle and rest when I'm tired.
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  7. I like eating bugs and I like intermittent fasting. Now you don't know how to respond, do you.
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  8. They love Ozempic. You go on that and if you ever stop taking it, you're back to where you started and IIUC, worse than when you started.
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  9. I remember reading a book on intermittent fasting and it was absolutely chock full of references to research studies that had been conducted over the years. One of the issues I have with the anti-fasting view is that if intermittent fasting isn't healthy, and we know that more conventional dieting programs don't work, then what on earth are folks supposed to do in order to maintain a healthy body weight, because exercise doesn't burn enough calories to make a difference either.
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