Precarious finances: 38% of Europeans no longer eat three meals a day

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• JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Why is 3 meals a day the goal? I thought the ‘breakfest is the most important meal of the day’ was just a commercial series. I usually don’t have time for breakfast and I don’t really feel like I’m missing anything.

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  • Prunebutt@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The goal is having the possibility to eat three meals a day.

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  • jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I like the summary on Wikipedia:

    Present professional opinion is largely in favor of eating breakfast,[62] but skipping breakfast might be better than eating unhealthy foods.[71]

    I.e. you should eat breakfast, if possible, but not any product sold as a breakfast product.

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    • Zekas@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I eat when I feel hungry and that usually means only dinner, sometimes lunch or breakfast but rarely all 3. I’m pretty low activity so it feels enough for me. I think like eating out of habit at a certain time is a bad thing but might just be my anecdotal experience.

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    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      also it depends on what you actually do: if you’re a manual labourer then yeah get a hearty breakfast, if you sit at a desk just eat a sandwich or something.

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  • brb@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I was taught to eat four meals a day so you people talking about two or even one meal a day seems crazy

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    • JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Raised on a farm? Mom had that where they’d do breakfast, lunch, dinner, and supper. But they were working off a whole lot more calories than I am.

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• vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  3 meals a day was never normal for me

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• Mojojojo1993@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Where do they get these stats from ?

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  • CazzoBuco@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    10k is a great number for this kind of extrapolation. The only concern is how varied that population was

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    • Mojojojo1993@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      For this kinda thing ? Really ? 10k to extrapolate into the population of what 300 mil ?

      Think that’s pretty wild. For maybe a single question with a few variations but something as complicated and complex as poverty and spending habits.

      Iyf like to see the sources to back up that claim.

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  • JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If that 10k is representative, that should give a very small uncertainty interval, less than 1%. You can get 95% confidence interval with only a few hundred samples depending on the standard deviation, so 10k is actually massive. It’s pretty standard statistics, here’s more info on how it’s calculated.

    …pressbooks.pub/…/7-5-calculating-the-sample-size…

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    • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I know jack shit about statics, or this study, but 10K participants seems more than solid if it’s proper science.

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  • AlexandroffExtension@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Dug around a little. Seems the 10k were split between 10 different states. Here is an infographic from the source:

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    The numbers do seem inflated and don’t add up very well comparatively between the different countries either.

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    • Mojojojo1993@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ah didn’t see the breakdown. Incredibly leading questions and highly charges but seems legit

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  • match@pawb.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    you’re right! can you calculate the sampling size that would’ve given 95% confidence

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• Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  idk about everyone else but my solution to shit finances isn’t eating less, it’s making half my diet potatoes and onions…

  i generally find statistics like these to be nothing more than ragebait.

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  • neidu@feddit.nl ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m doing pretty decent financially, and I don’t eat three meals a day. I just have awful dietary habits.

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• Mango@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I eat one a day if I remember.

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• SnuggleSnail@ani.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I would also check the box at not eating three times a day. Because I eat so much delicacies in the evening, that I don’t need breakfast any more 😅

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• netwren@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Where is this from? Those buildings look familiar

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• Coldgoron@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You folks too?

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• Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Well yeah. If I sit at home on Sunday playing videogames, I’m OK eating once a day and maybe having some snacks. If I bike to the mountains, I eat my weight in food. If I work intensively, I might have three meals a day, but sometimes I’m OK with two and a coffee with croissant for breakfast even then.
  You seem to paint it like it’s some kind of a bad thing

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