The 7 Absurd Myths Of Fasting

Dr. Stephanie Estima
Food equals Health
Published in
10 min readNov 13, 2017

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We have all heard the noise…

“You need to be eating 5–6x per day”.

“Eating throughout the day revs up that metabolism”

“Breakfast is the most important meal of the day”

Have you ever stopped to wonder where these beliefs come from?

Maybe I’m weird, but I like to ask questions so that I better understand things. One of my favourite questions is…

WHY?

WHY should we eat 5–6x/day?

WHY is breakfast the MOST important meal?

WHY does eating constantly rev up metabolic activity?

When you actually dig into the data, none of these statements are supported by this little thing I like to call ‘evidence’.

In fact, when you dig in, you will likely find the opposite is true….we DO NOT need to be eating 5x/day, the most important meal is NOT immediately after waking, and constant eating impairs our ability to use fat as fuel, and it causes long term hormonal imbalances.

We have gone from eating 3 meals a day in the 1950s and 60s to doubling that with a whopping 6 meals a day today.

To add further insult to injury, it is touted as a healthier way to live.

What has happened, however, is the exact opposite of what we have been trying to achieve. We are LESS healthy than we ever have been.

We are now eating all the time, and as a result — MORE overweight, with more lifestyle preventable diseases than ever before.

This is no coincidence.

When we go shopping, we see supermarkets filled to the brim with processed foods. Foods that are cheap, easy, and readily available.

They are loaded with simple sugars, hidden sugars, and keep us overweight, tired and depressed.

(Pro Tip: shop the perimeter of the stores only — it is where the fresh produce and meat products are! Avoid the isles as

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