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Ramadan fasting would be a brief period of ~12 hour fasts during the day, right? No biggie. The guy above was saying he eats one big meal every day, indefinitely. I'm no expert but that sounds like a bad idea.

The rule of thumb with stress is that low but chronic is way worse than acute. With that in mind maybe don't eat at all one day a week, but get your three squares the other six.

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Why three meals per day? If you're not an expert, then can you point to experts saying that eating just once or twice per day is "chronic stress" and a "bad idea"?

Why one? Normal humans for approximately forever choose two or three spaced meals. The onus would be on those advocating otherwise. Let me know when you find the study where people ate only one meal a day for a year.

> The onus would be on those advocating otherwise.

The onus would be on those making claims. It's for him to support the claim that one a day is healthy, but you are conversely making unsubstantiated claims about the health effects of just eating one meal a day, and the onus is on you to substantiate those.

It is one thing to ask him for evidence of his assertion, another to make your own and expect him to disprove them.

Here's a Ramadan fasting timetable for the UK this year:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/asiannetwork/shows/ramadan/timetable/

So more like 18 hours.

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