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Originally Posted by WereBear
I laughed. Then I pondered: isn't it strange how easily people accept what an authority says... and not listen to YOU?<...snip...>
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Yes they do. And that's the end of it. It also ends with a smile.
Of course they might be secretly guessing what is wrong with me, but no one has ever asked. If they did, I'd gently let them know it's private.
I do the same when they want to buy me drinks. I don't drink on the job as I think I need to be at my very best both playing sax/flute/guitar/wind-synthesizer/vocals, and constantly assessing the audience so I can pace them and play the right songs at the right time to give them the best experience I can for the evening.
I don't want to insult them, so by saying something like, "Thank you, I'd love to but --- doctor's orders" it refuses their generosity, but puts the blame on someone else, so they don't end up with hurt feelings and they don't try to insist (with rare exceptions).
Remember, when they offer you food or drink, they are offering you love. You don't want to turn down their love, but if the doctor says "no" they understand
you aren't turning down their love, but the doctor put you on a restriction.
Back to Dr. Fung...
One of my hobbies is travel. I live very, very modestly and instead of using my money to buy possessions, I travel.
I've noticed monkeys in the wild eat all day. They find a spot with ripe food, then when they have exploited that, go in search of the next one. It's not 3 meals a day, but eating a little bit here, and a little bit there all day.
Like those monkeys, we are primates too.
Of course they aren't eating ultra-processed food or drinking HFCS drinks either, and they are moving a lot, not sitting at a desk.
Same for the squirrels and birds in my back yard. The only time they seem to quit foraging is in the hottest part of the day (siesta time).
We humans have an abundance of food, and we don't have to walk very far to get it. Plus we eat the wrong things.
Thanks to modern food distribution we have food available, but we also have the wrong food available.
Look at nature. The fattening foods like fruit, tubers, and grains ripen right before the starvation season (winter in the temperate/arctic zones and the dry season in the tropics). Native animals eat the fattening food, gain a lot of weight, and during the lean season when food is scarce they depend on those fat reserves to get them through to spring (or the rainy season).
By that time they lost most of their fat.
Bears come out of hibernation wanting protein and when fall comes it's fruit and berries.
We have fruit and berries all year long plus we have all kinds of food we weren't meant to eat.
I'm not a doctor, but I think eating the wrong foods and not exercising enough have more of an impact than the 3 meals a day theory.
Of course YMMV
Bob