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Re:Why I don’t eat on Mondays by dragonwriter on Monday July 14, 2014 @12:15PM (#8031601)
> It's an unusual body/brain hack...

No, its not...intermittent fasting has been a fad in the last few years. There's nothing unusual about it.

> he seems to have done it methodically and observed the outcome...

I'm having trouble crediting something as a methodical study of a diet pattern change that doesn't have any indication of tracking the specific patterns of what is being eaten (or even quantification of total calories) before and after.

Re:Why I don’t eat on Mondays by thoughtpalette on Monday July 14, 2014 @12:37PM (#8031724)
> No, its not...intermittent fasting has been a fad in the last few years. There's nothing unusual about it.

Not everyone has heard about it. I found the article very interesting even though I'm not going to try it out.

Re:Why I don’t eat on Mondays by dragonwriter on Monday July 14, 2014 @12:44PM (#8031774)
> Not everyone has heard about it.

That's not the same thing as "unusual".

Re:Why I don’t eat on Mondays by thoughtpalette on Monday July 14, 2014 @12:54PM (#8031836)
I agree to an extent. I consider it unusual, but the nature of that word is subjective.