More Dodgy Research ?

[Canary42]

Food manufacturer Huel, which has developed a powdered food product to replace your normal intake, reports that from their survey the average Briton skips 260 meals a year.

Impartial view of course !

For what it's worth, their survey indicated that 72% missed a meal because they "forget to eat". Staggering.

Link: http://www.lovefood.com/journal/features/47338/skipping-meals-good-bad?utm_source=LF_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=LF%newsletter

Must go now, I've just "remembered" it's lunchtime.

[woofgang]

Well if you asked me if I had ever forgotten a meal until I was lighted headed with hunger, they answer would be yes. Do I do it frequently or regularly? No.

[ummmm]

Why is it staggering?

[ummmm]

I've never been lightheaded with hunger or lack of food but my mum and sister get the shakes.

[Canary42]

Back from lunch, so ready to answer ummmm.

I found it staggering that people forget to eat - that's all - just a personal opinion. Perhaps a bit hyperbolic of me, but there you go.

[ummmm]

I skip meals all the time for no other reason than I don't feel hungry.

Besides having to cook a dinner for the family I only ever think about food if I'm hungry.

Some days I eat loads other days I eat barely anything. I'm sure there are loads more like me.

When I'm away my appetite increases loads and I also eat breakfast, which is something I never do at home.

[Canary42]

Looking at the five categories given in the poll, I reckon "forget to eat" is the nearest one to your position ummmm so perhaps not so staggering after all, but a semantic failure of the poll categories to explicitly cover your case :-}

[ummmm]

I read an article years back that said people who naturally have a 'fast and feast' diet...ie...only eat when you're hungry, stop when you're full, tend to maintain their weight.

I presume I eat breakfast when away because you tend to be up, showered, dressed...looking pretty...before you walk out the door. At home I go to the kitchen blurry eyed and put the kettle on still in my PJ's.

People's attitude to food fascinates me. I'm from a family of pigs, their eating habits are what I would call staggering. I'm the odd one out :-)

[woofgang]

just read the link....It doesn't say "forget to eat" it says "forget to eat meals" which means they may well graze or eat snacks instead. By their standards, I expect I skip at least 260 "meals" a year.
I suspect that the the wording is not a semantic failure but a deliberate skewing to get the result that the backers of the poll want.