This is clinical nutrition. There are so many confounding factors that it is not reasonable to draw any conclusions about how the body works (especially as a layman reader on HN) from a study that tested 17 people. Indeed, their own introduction claims that previous larger studies have found no correlation between meal plans and effects on the body, at least wrt caloric expenditure.

> These comments are always so hilarious. It demonstrates a significant lack of understand of how statistics actually works.

I do have a PhD, but thank you for your input anyway.