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Bad Arguments for Intermittent Fasting

By Stuart Buck

I've been reading a bit on "intermittent fasting," which is basically the notion that your health might improve from occasionally skipping a meal or two (or a day of eating). I'm agnostic on such fasting, and one reason is that I keep seeing this argument: We modern humans have become acculturated to the three square meals per day regimen. Animals in the wild, particularly carnivorous animals, don?t eat thrice per day; they eat when they make a kill. I would imagine that Paleolithic man did the same. If I had to make an intelligent guess, I would say that Paleolithic man probably ate once per day or maybe even twice every three days. In data gathered from humans still living in non-Westernized cultures in the last century, it appears that they would gorge after a kill and sleep and lay around doing not much of anything for the next day or so...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Buck Stops Here on March 04, 2008 (boomark / email).