I am very curious how different people balance and incorporate the magnitude of information provided by research into their daily lives. I make most of my nutritional and health decisions from evidence and have no problem spending the time reading through examine.com or pubmed. I am honestly perplexed though as to how anyone can actually apply it all.
The largest contradiction I think is in the contrast between having a significant amount of high quality calories (for the mostly average athletic male in his 30s, for example) and intermittently fasting or having reduced calories days.
I am supposed to have 5 servings of vegetables and 2 servings fruit per day, have 38 grams of fiber, 83 grams of fat, 90 grams of protein, 8 or more cups of water, and all being equivalent to 2500 calories or so. At the same time, I intermittent fast (16/8) and occasionally do 40 hour fasts. I am just so confused how all these nutritional goals are able to be met daily. Based on all these requirements, I literally have to eat every 2 hours or so.
TLDR: How does one intermittent fast and fulfill nutritional objectives in the day?
Fasting is an incremental procedure. You start with three days, move up to seven, then two weeks, followed by a 30-40 day fast. Its the ultimate detox and needs to have substantial breaks as you work your way up