On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 13:36:43 -0600, Ashley Moran  
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> I'm not fanatical about this- the other day I had a bag of dried fruit  
> about 2pm, but that's the exception rather than the rule.  If I get  
> really hungry, I eat.  But I've found that this happens less and less  
> often.  I haven't had breakfast for over a year, and I can probably  
> count on one hand the number of times I've eaten before 1pm.

To some extent, the appetite is trainable.  The body likes routine.  If it  
"learns" that you eat mostly in the evening, that's when it's going to  
start getting hungry.  Similarly, if you go without breakfast all the  
time, it stops expecting it.  It's the same way that when you have a set  
schedule, you tend to wake up at the same time every morning even without  
the alarm clock.

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   Robert Kesterson
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