Elle magazine

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Elle Magazine article

Are we on a starvation diet? The title of the article.

Here we go again. This month's Elle magazine (just on the

newstands, June) features an article by Joe Hooper: Metabolic Magic:

Exercise Less, Live Longer, and then titled (heard this before) The

Starvation Diet. I want to be the first to disclose the other side of

the conversation, what did not make it into the article, and to

apologize (blush) for letting Joe pull the heating pad statement out of

me!

On the whole it is an interesting article, certainly well written,

but he did not include any of the pro-Cr effects on my energy levels,

stamina, and general sense of well being. Nor did they include my

picture, which was a great selling point (lean but strong), instead,

they photographed a string bean, 3 peas, and an anchovy on a plate.

Anyway, we have been down this path before, I am sure I never said " I

don't consume enough calories for that. " Meaning to run for exercise. I

simply prefer other forms of exercise.

This article quotes Luigi Fontana on CR:

" These are educated, professional people, " he says, " and they had enough

energy to do things like run companies. " He admits that CR practioners'

lower levels of sex hormones are an area of potential concern, and that

CR extreme enough to interfere with a woman's menstrual cycle is an

invitation to trouble.

(the article continues:) However, if CR is not withouth risk, aerobic

exercise doesn't rate an entirely clean bill of health either.<<

It is an interesting comparison between the detremental effects of

oxidative stress on marathon athletes vs a sound cardiovascular program

of running and the side-effects of CR vs the metabolic shift (or

whatever mechanism it is that is operational in us, the CR on-switch)

that appears to give us an edge. The article mentions CR-lite, and that

Fontana and Leeuwenburgh both are hopefull that " moderate forms of the

practice may confer real health benefits and help us side-step most of

the negative side effects.

So that is the jist of my story, it closes with Joe asking me where I

expect to be in 2075? " I don't know what I'm dong three years from

now. " she says. It makes me sound rather like an air head, and leaves

out the history that Roy just passed away and that I am now reshaping my

life. Those interviewers did it again! But it makes for a good story.

I wanted you all to hear my side before discussion on the article

begins in this group..

Walford