<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ronyeh</author><text>I think intermittent fasting is easier to implement for the average person. It&amp;#x27;s much easier to tell someone that they can eat as much as they want, but only between 6-8pm (one meal a day). It&amp;#x27;s difficult to tell someone you can eat 3 meals but no more than 1500 calories in total. Once I start eating, I don&amp;#x27;t want to stop (until I&amp;#x27;m full). But the point at which I&amp;#x27;m full is way beyond my calorie limit if I am eating 3 meals a day.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mikenew</author><text>&amp;gt; Subjects had a significant reduction in body mass index, waist circumference, and improvement in blood pressure&lt;p&gt;Would really like to see this compared to another group with a similar level of calorie restriction but without the intermittent fasting. The question with intermittent fasting is really just &amp;quot;is it better than plain old calorie restriction&amp;quot;. Seems like there&amp;#x27;s some evidence that points to &amp;quot;yes&amp;quot; and some evidence that points to &amp;quot;not really&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;EDIT: To be clear, by &amp;quot;is it better&amp;quot; I meant aside from just adherence. I&amp;#x27;ve used IF quite a bit myself and I find it much easier than eating frequent, small meals throughout the day if I want to be hypocaloric. There are a lot of claims around autophagy, a more favorable metabolic adaptation, better body composition, and in this case actual cancer treatment. &lt;i&gt;That&lt;/i&gt; is what I would like to see evidence for.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Intermittent fasting from dawn to sunset induces anticancer response</title><url>https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33110154/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mrapogee</author><text>True. However, even if intermittent fasting is no more effective than calorie restriction, from a human behavior perspective, it seems to be an easier way for many people to achieve their calorie goals than just &amp;quot;eating less&amp;quot;.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mikenew</author><text>&amp;gt; Subjects had a significant reduction in body mass index, waist circumference, and improvement in blood pressure&lt;p&gt;Would really like to see this compared to another group with a similar level of calorie restriction but without the intermittent fasting. The question with intermittent fasting is really just &amp;quot;is it better than plain old calorie restriction&amp;quot;. Seems like there&amp;#x27;s some evidence that points to &amp;quot;yes&amp;quot; and some evidence that points to &amp;quot;not really&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;EDIT: To be clear, by &amp;quot;is it better&amp;quot; I meant aside from just adherence. I&amp;#x27;ve used IF quite a bit myself and I find it much easier than eating frequent, small meals throughout the day if I want to be hypocaloric. There are a lot of claims around autophagy, a more favorable metabolic adaptation, better body composition, and in this case actual cancer treatment. &lt;i&gt;That&lt;/i&gt; is what I would like to see evidence for.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Intermittent fasting from dawn to sunset induces anticancer response</title><url>https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33110154/</url></story>