Why is 3 meals a day the goal? I thought the ‘breakfest is the most important meal of the day’ was just a commercial series. I usually don’t have time for breakfast and I don’t really feel like I’m missing anything.
The goal is having the possibility to eat three meals a day.
I like the summary on Wikipedia:
Present professional opinion is largely in favor of eating breakfast,[62] but skipping breakfast might be better than eating unhealthy foods.[71]
I.e. you should eat breakfast, if possible, but not any product sold as a breakfast product.
I eat when I feel hungry and that usually means only dinner, sometimes lunch or breakfast but rarely all 3. I’m pretty low activity so it feels enough for me. I think eating purely out of habit at a certain time is a bad thing but might just be my anecdotal experience.
I mostly agree with you, but I think that any habit can have a strong effect, so if you do have habitual healthy breakfasts it’s probably just about as healthy as skipping. I like skipping btw, up until I was around 25yo I just ate whenever I felt hungry, then I did some casual fasting, now my hunger impulse has all but lost it’s power and I like it like that, it feels more relaxed somehow.
also it depends on what you actually do: if you’re a manual labourer then yeah get a hearty breakfast, if you sit at a desk just eat a sandwich or something.
Breakfast should be “light” like Havregrynsgröt or others, then a true dinner before noon so you get enough juice for the rest of the day. Personally against cooking for breakfast, so biased
Honestly I’m growing more and more to think that healthy food is subjective. Like if you’re overweight yes calorie dence food is probably not that good for you. If you’re underweight you need every calorie you can get. If you’re working out all the time yet again you need every calorie you can get and have the ideal chemical compounds to fule mussel growth. Before the 2000s militarys were rejecting people because they were underweight. Now they are rejecting people left and right for being overweight. I’m starting to wonder if people in the 19th century considered calorie dence food healthy for being calorie dence.
I was taught to eat four meals a day so you people talking about two or even one meal a day seems crazy
Raised on a farm? Mom had that where they’d do breakfast, lunch, dinner, and supper. But they were working off a whole lot more calories than I am.
3 meals a day was never normal for me
I would also check the box at not eating three times a day. Because I eat so much delicacies in the evening, that I don’t need breakfast any more 😅
idk about everyone else but my solution to shit finances isn’t eating less, it’s making half my diet potatoes and onions…
i generally find statistics like these to be nothing more than ragebait.
I’m doing pretty decent financially, and I don’t eat three meals a day. I just have awful dietary habits.
I eat one a day if I remember.
You folks too?
Where is this from? Those buildings look familiar
Picture metasearch description says East London. Definitely not familiar
Where do they get these stats from ?
Bullshit statistics.
10k were interviewed. They extrapolate 10k to the population of Europe. C’mon that’s just mad. Especially with something as complicated as poverty.
Europe also currently has a war ongoing and has huge areas of incredibly poor and wealthy. Can’t really average that out. Wouldn’t trust anything that comes out of this research institution
10k is a great number for this kind of extrapolation. The only concern is how varied that population was
For this kinda thing ? Really ? 10k to extrapolate into the population of what 300 mil ?
Think that’s pretty wild. For maybe a single question with a few variations but something as complicated and complex as poverty and spending habits.
Iyf like to see the sources to back up that claim.
Yup, check this parent comment for the source you’re asking for
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If that 10k is representative, that should give a very small uncertainty interval, less than 1%. You can get 95% confidence interval with only a few hundred samples depending on the standard deviation, so 10k is actually massive. It’s pretty standard statistics, here’s more info on how it’s calculated.
I know jack shit about statics, or this study, but 10K participants seems more than solid if it’s proper science.
That only applies to statistics that follow a nornal distribution. If there’s no bell curve, these numbers don’t make sense.
I don’t know if the distribution is or isn’t shaped well for this kind of statistical analysis, but sample sizes and confidence intervals don’t always work and are sometimes used to distort data.
Dug around a little. Seems the 10k were split between 10 different states. Here is an infographic from the source:
The numbers do seem inflated and don’t add up very well comparatively between the different countries either.
While 10k can be a good sample size, only selecting a couple of European countries for research does make the “Europeans” headline misleading.
“People in 10 European countries” would be better, but the results vary wildly by country. A country-oriented title would probably be better.
I find it kind of interesting how Germany is positioned compared to the generally poorer countries. It seems like everyone is affected by high inflation, but different countries cope with the reduced purchasing powers in different ways.
Perhaps it’s my Dutchness showing, but I’ve always looked for discounts and visited discount stores, even when I was much better off financially. I’m not getting scammed by shit companies, going to discount stores has nothing to do with my purchasing power.
Ah didn’t see the breakdown. Incredibly leading questions and highly charges but seems legit
you’re right! can you calculate the sampling size that would’ve given 95% confidence
