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Re:No link between eating dinner after 8pm, obesity in children by overgard on Sunday February 12, 2017 @03:12PM (#13630429)
"Normal" is a weasel word though -- who defines normal? Not to mention that being overweight is, now, quite "normal"

There was once a time in history where lead piping was normal and it was normal to have heavy metal poisoning.

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Re:No link between eating dinner after 8pm, obesity in children by ouid on Sunday February 12, 2017 @04:03PM (#13630794)
how about defining normal as "what humanity ate when it was developing"?

Even just to say whole plants and animals, in about the proportions that they were naturally available about 40000 years ago.

There's no reason to expect this to give you increased longevity though, dying was adaptive to early humans.

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