I think that most of us have found this out as well. For at least the last 50 years, the food industry has promoted the idea that people need to eat more food, and that if we don’t , we won’t be healthy, and we have grown up believing this to be true.
Since I am a senior, and grew up back in the 1950’s , I can remember the advertising for cereals (Wheaties..... the Breakfast of Champions !) and Wonder Bread, which was only plain white bread that we now know is almost worthless as a food.
Back then, the programming was the importance of three solid meals per day, but now, snacks have become a big thing, and we are all told we should eat the three “balanced” meals, plus several snacks.
No one really stops to think that all of this so-called healthy information just is coming from the companies who want us to spend money buying their food products.
The good thing is that IF and OMAD both are starting to be very well known, and people are being re-educated about food, as well as that fasting is actually very healthy for our body. The Facebook group just for this OMAD forum already has well over 70,000 members, and growing each day, and that is just one of the many health/diet oriented groups that people are joining.