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by RandomCitizen12 660 days ago
Given that fasting is enshrined as a order in many belief systems, it seems like humans needs external motivation to ignore their body's complaints and fast for positive effects.
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75% of adult in the west are obese or overweight because they listen to their body...

What we call fasting today was the defacto lifestyle for hundred millions of years. The current three meals a day pattern doesn't even register on that scale