James Laughlin explains why kids need to eat more often than adults: growing bodies require constant fuel, while adults have stopped growing and don't need the same frequent feeding schedule.
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Adults versus children when it comes to fasting, kids completely understand it immediately when you say to them growing bodies have different nutritional needs than adult bodies that are already grown. They're like yeah, that makes sense because if you're growing you need to put in sufficient fuel so that you will grow. Kids need to eat frequently. I mean think about the period of time when the kids are eating the most frequently. It's when they're babies. Newborn babies eat around the clock. Literally. You wake up in the middle of the night, you feed them several times. My babies wanted to eat all the time in the middle of the night. And so they are building their bodies and they're growing at the fastest rate that they will ever grow. And you need to eat very, very frequently to grow. Once you're an adult you're not growing anymore. We don't need to put in as much fuel. It just makes sense and.