IT'S STARTED. THE POWERS THAT BE ARE PREPARING THEIR "JUST DON'T EAT, CITIZEN" PROPAGANDA BEFORE THE COLLAPSE OF THE GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAIN.
Don't worry, only the poor will starve.
Wait, I'm poor...
"Everyone, deep in their hearts, is waiting for the end of the world to come."
Well, fasting is not for everyone. Female biology often benefits from regular eating (small quantities), for example. People with gastritis, with PMOS, diabetes, etc. may find fasting hard. Intuitive eating is interesting, but people may have a problem confusing 'intuition' with 'body signals' that are not great; for example, if I were to intuitively eat while on ADHD medication, I'd eat nothing, and the opposite for bad days, I'd feel that my body is 'naturally' asking me for extra food.
So, while I agree that we should be brave to change the three meals a day if it isn't for us, I'd recommend getting enough information and medical advice before changing anything.
"Stop eating for pleasure" is BS, too. We shouldn't overindulge, but we need to find food appealing in order to stick with our personalized diet. These messages about food and eating being 'a problem' are not good for people in risk of developing an eating disorder...
isn't this.. kinda transphobic?
On the contrary, I am supposing that intersex and other non-binary, divergent sexual individuals who, one way or the other, depend on the estrogens and such hormones will find that their bodies (their brains) are expecting the AFAB/female cycles and details, and then they'll live the same experience of high cortisol while fasting, the hormonal changes, etc. That's why I prefer to call it a "female biology" and not "women's" because there's probably in here someone who has that body, that sex, but not that gender identity. Also, I'm not a doctor so I don't know for sure about intersex and trans bodies, but I doubt science knows a lot more, TBH. We'll have to wait for science to research bodies inclusively.
Sauce for the female biology bit? Ive never heard that before.
I'm going outside today. I'll try to answer later, but in case I forget for a few days, google something like: "Is fasting good for women?" or "Fasting and female hormones", etc. Apparently, fasting can help lose weight, yes, but it can trigger some spikes in cortisol and hormonal changes. I guess because the AFAB bodies are always looking out for "the potential baby" and fasts may trigger some: "beware, you need to be strong for the future baby". Same reason for stronger fat storage (for "the baby"), I think. But I'm not a doctor and I might be ill-informed (badly informed?).
Brave of you to assume we all eat 3 a day.
I haven't eaten three meals a day in probably 20 years.
I'm always surprised when people say they eat breakfast before work. How do they have time for that? I usually have something around 10 or 11, then an apple or cheese stick or cookie or whatever i can find when i get home around 5, then dinner around 7 or 8. I guess that counts as 3.
How do they have time for that?
I get up at 5:45, bathroom, get dressed until about 6:15, eat breakfast (sandwich and coffee) until 6:40, commute 20 minutes, start work at 7.
I eat breakfast, same thing, every day, for 20 years.
It's no harder than anything else, just get up early enough to do it.
Takes 30 minutes from start to cleaning my plates.
I also eat something like 7 times a day. More frequent, smaller meals are generally better for most people from a glucose stability perspective. Of course everyone is different, and only you know for sure what timing works for you.
i haven't had 3 meals in a day in years
i eat when i feel like it, which is more like 1 meal plus a few snacks per day
We? 3 meals a day is warranted for manual labor-heavy jobs (like farmer, construction). I, in IT&tech, eat breakfast, maybe a snack if it's long inbetween and cook something at evening.
I often do heavy work and still usually skip breakfast, sometimes lunch too, eating just dinner then second dinner in the evening.
yeah i can confirm, my calorie intake like doubled when i worked in agriculture for a few weeks
You are not supposed to eat the agriculture
This kills the agriculture
eh it boosts morale to eat the literal fruits of one's labor
Is this a bunch of bots or does nobody else have blood sugar.
You don't get sugar crashes if you don't eat copious amounts of sugar
I get them at around 11 in the morning. I eat wholemeal bread with no sugar crunchy peanut butter for breakfast.
Maybe your trouble is the bread. Wholemeal are carbs and carbs are sugar. The sugarless peanut butter should not be causing any sugar crashes.
Caveat. Not a trained specialist here. Just someone who has been trying to sort my issues out and wanting to share.
complex carbs are not comparable to simpler sugars, the body has to do a significant amount of processing to turn the carbs into readily usable sugar.
You also need carbs in your diet, it's the main fuel source for the body and it's difficult to avoid anyways (all vegetables have loads of carbs, even peanuts are 17% carbs.
Bread and peanut butter are both relatively large sources of sugar…
that's a very broad statement, unsweetened bread barely has any sugar at all.
In the context of blood sugar, carbohydrates is the sugar being discussed, not cane sugar, and bread in almost all forms is just pure simple carbs. Peanut butter is at least a bit more complex, but would still cause blood sugar problems. If you’re trying to avoid diabetes, daily peanut butter bread is probably a bad call.
People that are fit don't have to worry about blood sugar.
Type 1 diabetes is a thing.
Do what you need for your body to function properly. If that's the 3 meals a day deal then fine. If you eat small items throughout the day to maintain energy levels for health reasons or because that's how your body operates best is fine as well. We are seriously hitched up on this stupid concept of "normality" in society.
3 meals a day are fine. So are two meals a day or five. That was precisely MFK Fisher's point, paraphrased in the article's introduction. What you eat and how much are far the more important concerns.
most people in the states actually think they're going to die immediately if they skip a meal, let alone two.
the "never don't eat, for any reason, ever--or you will DIE" mindset is one of the things we're most force-fed from birth onwards.
it's becase if you skip a meal, that's money that wasn't spent. if everyone skipped a meal, that's a lot of money that wasn't spent. we can't have that in capitalism. therefore, eat abundantly and often. it doesn't matter what, as long as it's something you bought
I've found the opposite. I find that a lot of the traditions regarding food don't stem from capitalism, but from vestiges of poverty and food insecurity no matter the economic system that poverty came from.
Grandma is a lot more likely to use food as a way to communicate love if she went through food insecurity as a child.
so you just want people to ignore it?
It just seems unnecessary to bring it up in every barely-related thread. We're all aware of serious problems but not every discussion has to be taken over by the doomer mindset. I subscribe to the fun little communities to get a break from the serious shit, we don't all need to be talking about the bad stuff all the time!
Who is 'we' exactly? Did I need someone's permission?
I'm not reading the article because I'm lazy.
This is for strictly mildly interesting material. If it's too interesting, it doesn't belong. If it's not interesting, it doesn't belong.
This is obviously an objective criteria, so the mods are always right. Or maybe mildly right? Ahh.. what do we know?
Just post some stuff and don't spam.