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Re:When We Eat, or Don’t Eat, May Be Critical for Health by kaybe on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @07:48AM (#17608520)
People might have to learn how to listen. Many modern diets don't really give kids an opportunity to experience different things. How can you know what your body wants if you never had the chance to try?

It is a question of being exposed to a wide array of options and and then of being able to feel what is needed. Compared to a violent craving for sugar and fast food the signal is much more muted.

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Re:When We Eat, or Don’t Eat, May Be Critical for Health by nissarup on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @08:51AM (#17608832)
So it's not just "listen to your body" it's more like "learn to listen to the specific right signals that your body is whispering very, very softly while yelling for more sugar". Is that right?

I'm sorry. This is horrible advice. In fact I would not call it advice at all. Basically you are just saying "do the right thing" without specifying what "the right thing" actually is.

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Re:When We Eat, or Don’t Eat, May Be Critical for Health by kaybe on Thursday July 26, 2018 @04:38AM (#17615969)
It's not my advice, I know that for many many people it does not work. I'm just saying that's how I understand it and for me it does work. It is hard to imagine it is fundamentally impossible for most, but it might well be.
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