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That study is nothing but BS. I have been living like this for over 8 years, it started when my mother had Stage 4 lung cancer, and after work I had to drive to her house every evening an help take care of her. I did this for 6 months, and the weight fell off, and I was still eating bad an not exercising at all. Then I just kept that way of eating, then I started exercising, then a couple of years later KETO. I got to no fat at all on my body, running 3 times a week, size 4, I was in the best shape of my life at 49. Then I turned 50 and I got a sinus infection that was horrid, damaged a lot of facial nerves and Bell's Palsy, still not healed 100% 3 years later. I went into a depression, slowly gained about 10 to 12 pounds back, also I now have a salicylate sensitivity and I cannot consume veggies or fruit. No at 53, I am 100% Carnivore, still fasting 12 to 18 hours a day, has been 2 months, I have lost all of the 10-12 pounds, I feel amazing, no more rashes from eating fruit or veggies, and I will start exercising again, dealing with my dad who is dying of congestive heart failure, he is not easy to deal with. My husband had gained weight, and loved carbs, 3 weeks in on Carnivore and he looks amazing! His gut is shrinking, he still works out, he is very buff up top, and he feels amazing! Next week he gets his blood work done, we are excited to see the results! He has never fasted, he is an ole army vet, set in his ways, and I like the change I am seeing! Later this spring and summer we will be hiking and overlanding! A lot of hiking!

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I hear so many stories first-hand from the formerly sick who are now healthy after having switched to a meat-centric diet. We have been lied to for a very long time.

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Agreed, we have been lied to our entire lives. I hope and pray that we can teach the generation coming up the truth, they can then pass it to their children.

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Scripture is full of the benefits of fasting, both for spiritual as well as physical reasons. This is just another lame attempt by our big pharma owned media attempting to confuse and influence people. Ignore them.

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I don’t know why these study is getting traction. I’ve tweeted earlier that it’s not a peer reviewed work. It’s not appropriate to point towards this study when more evidence over years have favored fasting. The study has major flaws and we need to address them. Not sure why Media is giving attention to this.

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I've been wondering the same. It's been making headlines across the media spectrum. Given the proven health benefits of fasting and caloric restriction, it should have garnered nothing more than a footnote.

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From pharma rag throwaway journal Medscape, which had the gall to promote this trash science:

"The researchers analyzed data on dietary patterns for 20,078 adults (mean age, 48 years; 50% men; 73% non-Hispanic White) who participated in the 2003-2018 National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES). All of them completed two 24-hour dietary recall questionnaires within the first year of enrollment."

I rechecked it three times to make sure what I was reading and that this wasn't the Onion or Babylon Bee. They followed people who did two days of food diaries for 15 years and then based their conclusions were based on that. Many were smokers. The study included smokers and did not correct for the fact that people who would have taken on IF probably had an existing health reason to do so.

In what universe do Americans need to be eating more often and creating more inflammation to save their heart health? We all know what happens when Americans go on cruises and eat seven meals a day. Five pounds of weight gain a week.

Nutrition research in my lifetime has been an absolute disgrace. Remember experts told us to eat seven servings of grain a day. And instead of delicious butter they pushed margarine, the worst pseudofood imaginable. The obesity epidemic started in 1980 when experts told us to cut fat and promoted HFCS for "scientific" reasons and not at all related to lobbying money. Sure.

Sadly, some people will read this nonsense and use it to justify their six meal a day snacky standard American diet of processed food which is the worst diet in the history of civilization. Fitting that the author is from Shanghai because nutrition has been Shanghai'ed by corruption since Ancel Keys.

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It will be used to justify overeating, in the same way that obscure and unscientific "studies" showing vegan diets save lives supports in inherently unhealthy plant-based diet that is incompatible with life.

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They have done so much damage to themselves over the past few decades I am suspicious of the chart from the get go.

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isn't it odd how since just 2021, we're being told of so many 'things' that cause heart issues that were never an issue before?

I wonder what changed...

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Suspicious, is it not?

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