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Re:The Fasting Cure Is No Fad by donkeyd on Friday August 02, 2019 @10:53AM (#20593429)
It's a 14 hour fast, as was mentioned in the article. Most people i know eat breakfast when they go to work, between 6 and 8am and people often tend to snack late at night. There's even the saying that 'breakfast is the most important meal of the day', so yeah I'd say that not eating until noon is not normal.
Re:The Fasting Cure Is No Fad by ThePirateofOz on Friday August 02, 2019 @12:34PM (#20594318)
The whole breakfast being the most important meal of the day, was merely a marketing stunt by Grape Nuts.

https://priceonomics.com/how-breakfast-became-a-thing/

Re:The Fasting Cure Is No Fad by lhl on Friday August 02, 2019 @12:59PM (#20594509)
The history of breakfast cereal preceding that is even more bizarre, being driven largely by John Kellogg’s desire to stamp out masturbation. Also by the Pricenomics guys: https://www.forbes.com/sites/priceonomics/2016/05/17/the-sur...
Re:The Fasting Cure Is No Fad by Retra on Friday August 02, 2019 @11:05AM (#20593506)
"An apple a day keeps the doctor away" is a saying too, but it doesn't mean people are eating apples regularly. If anything, it means people are not doing it as much as someone thinks they should. It could easily be the case that we have such a saying because people don't regularly eat breakfast.
Re:The Fasting Cure Is No Fad by wysifnwyg on Friday August 02, 2019 @11:12AM (#20593575)
An apple a day keeps the doctor away only works if you've got good aim.