Alternate Day Eating, Energy Balance and Metabolism

publication date: Dec 6, 2010
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It is pretty clear that human metabolism is adapted to the variable energy intake and expenditure that characterized the evolutionary environment, particularly through the Ice Ages. I cover aspects of this in my Why We Get Fat paper.

Nassim asked me about the concavity/convexity of energy intake and expenditure the other day on his Facebook page Nassim Taleb. You can see the discussion that ensued there. Eating every day is far different from starving one day and feasting the next, so why are they treated the same by the energy balance modelers? Because they don't know the importance of variation.


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