Calorie restriction is fostered by nuttiness restriction

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From: Schulman <raschulman@...>

I've taken the liberty of re-quoting one of Dr. Fontana's paraphrased

comments from the above-mentioned Notes:

>Fontana: CR may lengthen life, but may also increase risk of dying.

>The average lifespan of a CR'ed population of humans may be longer,

>but an individual may be hurt by CR if taken to " extreme " .

>Unfortunately we don't have a good way to judge how far is too far.

In

>general, [it] may be better to be [on the safe side]. "

I think only a few here are in danger of shortening their lifespan

through excessive calorie restriction. Most of us just don't have the

stomach for it (so to speak). But I do fear that many practitioners

here will shorten their lives by falling prey to some ancillary fad or

fanaticism. By fad or fanaticism I mean a practice that has been

proposed by some authority as a panacea but that is supported by

insufficient or badly-designed medical-journal research.

Among my candidates as likely life-shortening practices recently

popular with some CR members:

1) minimal-fruit diets,

2) no-fish diets,

3) diets based on a few foods and many pills,

4) no-exercise and no-resistance-training regimes,

5) diets emphasizing some one miracle food or ingredient,

6) medically unsupervised high protein or low carbohydrate diets,

7) medically unsupervised fasting, and

8) medically unsupervised veganism.

The Hippocratic injunction applies to CR practitioners no less than

physicians: " Practitioner, do no harm. "

Schulman