<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>JKCalhoun</author><text>My sense is that &lt;i&gt;conventional dietary wisdom&lt;/i&gt; comes from an agricultural heritage — where we spent all damn day working the fields. Without that intensive labor, three meals seems to make less sense.</text><parent_chain><item><author>random_upvoter</author><text>For decades of my adult life I skipped breakfast, going against all conventional dietary wisdom. Having 3 meals a day just felt like turning my body into a conveyor belt that produces faeces. Now I feel kinda vindicated.&lt;p&gt;A few times I traveled with a friends who did the breakfast - lunch - dinner thing and after two or three days I had to opt out of either breakfast or dinner. I remember asking &amp;quot;how do you even manage to process that much?&amp;quot; and I just got blank stares.&lt;p&gt;For what it&amp;#x27;s worth, I&amp;#x27;m 51 now and my body weight is the same as when I was 20. It just doesn&amp;#x27;t LOOK quite the same anymore ;)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A beginner&apos;s guide to intermittent fasting (2012)</title><url>https://jamesclear.com/the-beginners-guide-to-intermittent-fasting</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>fouc</author><text>People that maintain a low weight throughout life and eat 3 meals a day probably eat smaller meals than your 2 meals.</text><parent_chain><item><author>random_upvoter</author><text>For decades of my adult life I skipped breakfast, going against all conventional dietary wisdom. Having 3 meals a day just felt like turning my body into a conveyor belt that produces faeces. Now I feel kinda vindicated.&lt;p&gt;A few times I traveled with a friends who did the breakfast - lunch - dinner thing and after two or three days I had to opt out of either breakfast or dinner. I remember asking &amp;quot;how do you even manage to process that much?&amp;quot; and I just got blank stares.&lt;p&gt;For what it&amp;#x27;s worth, I&amp;#x27;m 51 now and my body weight is the same as when I was 20. It just doesn&amp;#x27;t LOOK quite the same anymore ;)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A beginner&apos;s guide to intermittent fasting (2012)</title><url>https://jamesclear.com/the-beginners-guide-to-intermittent-fasting</url></story>