Dr. Jason Fung

Right.

Because you're eating enough.

And if you didn't eat enough, you're a little hungry.

You eat more at dinner or you should eat more at lunch the next day.

Right.

But then it becomes and it came without any sort of evidence.

It just sort of came into being.

I have theory on why that was.

But it was the, eventually, if you look at how often people are eating, and there's data from the NHANES study, which is these giant sort of dietary questionnaires that the government does.

In the 70s, people were eating like just above three times a day, like, you know, breakfast, lunch, dinner.

And then by the 2000s,

they're eating closer to five to six times a day, right?

So they're eating twice as much.

And the only reason they are is because they think it's an acceptable sort of way to eat.

And I think it's because we had switched from eating sort of real foods to very low carb, sorry, low fat foods, which tends to be high in carbs.

And so instead of eating eggs for breakfast in the 80s and stuff, there's this whole low-fat obsession, remember?

So instead of eating eggs, which was sort of a classic breakfast food, people would eat like a muffin instead, right?

And it would be the same calories.

But the problem is that, again, the muffin is going to be full of refined starches.

So therefore, insulin is going to spike way up.