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by jahnu 2162 days ago
They are also for the hard to market, varied diet but largely fruit and vegetables, moderate exercise, little or no alcohol, and regular checkups.

I'm failing to some degree on these, I admit.

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They are also for 7-8 bite sized 250 calorie meals every other waking hour. A feat that can only be feasibly achieved via living off ready-made readily-purchasable health snacks™.

There is no money in fasting, intermittent or otherwise.

> They are also for 7-8 bite sized 250 calorie meals every other waking hour.

No, I wouldn’t say this is modern consistent dietary advice. So many people that make it there business to talk about diet are hyping intermittent fasting now.

> There is no money in fasting, intermittent or otherwise.

It seems like there is: https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/20/big-sky-health-raises-8-mi...

> There is no money in fasting, intermittent or otherwise.

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=fasting+books&ref=nb_sb_noss_2

Seems like there's money in them there books.

> There is no money in fasting

There is, and that’s a good thing for both sides of the transaction.