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Thanks TS,
This topic really interests me.
I consider myself a pretty intuitive guy and intermittent fasting makes sense to me in the type of time ratios you speak of. I could see only eating between noon and 6pm and not eating the next 18 hours. That almost certainly aligns with our evolutionary eating habits.
I am still not at all sold on regular fasting (not eating for X days) providing the proper type of long term benefits and i think intuitively it is easy to see why it would be bad and send the wrong signals to the body and metabolism.
So TS, what hours are you allowing yourself to eat and do you break from that when you are outside your home routine and say, out on a date or with friends and/or work colleagues??
Science is not intuitive. How is it good for blood sugar levels? How much of your prey do you chase?
Followers of the paleo philosophy claim to draw their nutritional guidelines from Neanderthals. But stark differences in geography and agriculture, thousands of years of evolution, and a contemporary food industry stand in the way. Mounting evidence, including a recent study that analyzed dental plaque from the Paleolithic time period, confirms that grains, tubers, and sugary fruits were staples despite modern-day adherents avoiding carbs at all costs. Read on to see how a real paleo plate around the globe would have looked and how you can make a few tweaks to your paleo philosophy for major health benefits.
Proponents of the Paleo diet follow a nutritional plan based on the eating habits of our ancestors in the Paleolithic period, between 2.5 million and 10,000 years ago. Before agriculture and industry, humans presumably lived as hunter–gatherers: picking berry after berry off of bushes; digging up tumescent tubers; chasing mammals to the point of exhaustion; scavenging meat, fat and organs from animals that larger predators had killed; and eventually learning to fish with lines and hooks and hunt with spears, nets, bows and arrows.