#290: Menno Henselmans & Eric Helms, PhD - Diet Breaks, Calorie Cycling & Muscle Retention
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The Psychological Benefits of Diet Breaks
The benefits or the downside is mostly the lack of routine that if you want to do a diet break I think it's really important to stick to routines and really implement it. The Matador study which is the only study that's reasonably controlled and found like true benefits in terms of retention of energy expenditure I'm very skeptical of that based on the other literature. Eric mentions the idea of practicing maintenance something like that a lot more than the the name diet break because I think there are a lot of dangers with that.
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