I hadn’t seen this before. It would take some time to analyse and I think it is useful even if I start out from a position of scepticism.
Below is the full article.
First, the measures of eating behaviors were self-reported, which might lead to recall bias. This may bias the results towards the null. Second, the lack of information on sleep such as sleep duration or bedtime makes it impossible to evaluate the role of sleep as a potential confounder for the association between meal patterns and mortality. Third, because only one in-person dietary recall was collected in the 1999-2000, and 2001-2002 cycles, this study used the first recall for all surveys. Fourth, despite the adjustment for a wide range of potential factors that were both related to meal consumption and mortality, there is still a possibility of residual confounding by unmeasured factors, such as neighborhood characteristics, detailed housing condition, or occupational environment. Fifth, this study focused on meal skipping regardless of snack consumption, thus the evidence provided for healthy effects of intermittent fasting is limited.
So did the survey population substitute a coke and a muffin for a meal? A bag of potato chips and coke, perhaps?
The New York Post had a scarier headline.
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This is the likely cause.
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