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If you don’t eat, does your body eat your muscle or fat first?

As expected, this is also false. It shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone – it just doesn’t make sense. Off of the top of your head name some important muscles: heart, diaphragm, right? These are necessary...

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If I skip a meal or don’t eat for over 12 hours, will my body go into...

Oh, starvation mode: how I loathe thee! What does starvation mode even mean? I googled it. Wikipedia says it’s the body responding to long periods of low energy intake. So what is a “long period”?...

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Do you have to eat every 3-4 hours to increase your metabolism?

This broke my heart, because I am the Queen of eating every few hours. Initially I was really only hungry 3 times a day, but in every magazine I read it said to eat small meals every 3-4 hours. Now I...

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How long until my metabolism drops from fasting?

I think I know where this information came from – The Minnesota Starvation Study. Matchstick Molly does a great breakdown of this study, but in essence they took a bunch of middle aged, totally healthy...

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Does your metabolism ever recover from having an eating disorder?

As someone who’s recovered from an eating disorder this topic has plagued me for a long time. You hear horror stories of yo-yo dieters that are unable to lose weight because years of starvation lead to...

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