Nutrient Quality/Quantity.

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Hi folks:

I have been ruminating a bit lately about the nutrition issue

referred to by Warren below. Since I am rather new to CR, nutrition

is not a problem PRINCIPALLY BECAUSE I CAN LOSE WEIGHT AT A RATE OF

HALF A POUND A WEEK WITH A FAIRLY LIBERAL DIET. It is not too

difficult to get the nutrients I need (except for calcium and zinc)

from a 1750 kcal diet - I am reasonably sure that my caloric-weight-

maintenance needs were about 2000 kcal/day when I started on CR.

So dropping my intake to 1750 and losing about half a pound of weight

a week has done the trick for now. But only for now. As time goes

by, and my weight/BMI/BF% etc all drop, so will my caloric needs. So

it is likely to become increasingly more difficult to maintain good

micronutrient intakes as I have to drop my caloric intake to maintain

a daily 250 kcal deficit.

Fortunately I have a cushion - I am still eating starches many of

which do not contain much in the way of micronutrients (some none at

all!). So down the road I will have to phase much of them out in

order to eat more of the foods with higher micronutrient values.

I am wondering whether maintaining a 250 kcal/day deficit will

require the same degree of restraint as it has in the past, or

whether it will require progressively greater efforts as my coloric

needs decline.

Any thought from the experiences of those who have already done it?

Rodney.

> With a good quality CR diet, nutrition is probably NOT a worry at

> all for people insuring high nutrition.