Guest guest Posted December 27, 2005 Report Share Posted December 27, 2005 I'm not very good with science, so could you clarify for me what 5% CR and 33% CR would translate into for humans? Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 27, 2005 Report Share Posted December 27, 2005 I'm not very good with science, so could you clarify for me what 5% CR and 33% CR would translate into for humans? Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 27, 2005 Report Share Posted December 27, 2005 Hi Bernadette: " 5% CR " means that the person doing it ingests five percent less calories than they would be eating if they ate what they normally would like to eat. So, for example, if normally a person would be eating 2000 calories a day then 5% CR is five percent less than that, which is 1900 calories. Similarly, 33% CR is eating thirty-three percent less than one would when eating as much as one feels like eating. In the case of the 2000 calorie example, that means 33% less than 2000, which works out to 1333 calories a day. Among the groups they had chosen to study, the one which initially dropped intake just 5%, and only later dropped by 33%, seemed to have better protection against cancer than the group which went suddenly from normal feeding to eating 33% less. This is interesting because it is evidence that going at things gradually is not only safer, but provides more cancer protection also. Which, of course, Francesca has been repeatedly advocating here for years. They did not study a group which dropped in stages from ad lib to 5%, to 10%, to 15% .................. until 35% was reached in 5% stages. But one might suspect that, had they had such a group in their study, it might have experienced still better results. Curiously, and by coincidence, Tony and I had been calculating just a while ago that a mere 100 calorie per day reduction in intake would result in a sizeable (based on my calculation about fifteen pounds) drop in weight. The 100 calories is exactly 5% of 2000 in the above example. So, this latest study seems to support the idea that dropping intake just 100 calories at a time may be the best method of making the transition to full CR status. My suggestion is to drop intake by one hundred calories and wait for the first to occur of the following: A) Weight drops fifteen pounds, or Three months has elapsed. Then, once either A) or has occurred, drop another 100 calories from intake and wait for A) or again, and repeat as many times as is judged to be desirable. [One hundred calories is about one banana. Not one heck of a lot. Just resisting that snack between dinner and bedtime would do it for many people.] And I still insist that after a few months restriction my experience is that I no longer want as much food. It is as if my stomach has shrunk in response to the reduction in demand for its services. Some here, I realize, find this latter proposition a bit comical : ^ ))) Rodney. > > I'm not very good with science, so could you clarify for me what 5% CR and > 33% CR would translate into for humans? > > Thank you! > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 27, 2005 Report Share Posted December 27, 2005 Hi Bernadette: " 5% CR " means that the person doing it ingests five percent less calories than they would be eating if they ate what they normally would like to eat. So, for example, if normally a person would be eating 2000 calories a day then 5% CR is five percent less than that, which is 1900 calories. Similarly, 33% CR is eating thirty-three percent less than one would when eating as much as one feels like eating. In the case of the 2000 calorie example, that means 33% less than 2000, which works out to 1333 calories a day. Among the groups they had chosen to study, the one which initially dropped intake just 5%, and only later dropped by 33%, seemed to have better protection against cancer than the group which went suddenly from normal feeding to eating 33% less. This is interesting because it is evidence that going at things gradually is not only safer, but provides more cancer protection also. Which, of course, Francesca has been repeatedly advocating here for years. They did not study a group which dropped in stages from ad lib to 5%, to 10%, to 15% .................. until 35% was reached in 5% stages. But one might suspect that, had they had such a group in their study, it might have experienced still better results. Curiously, and by coincidence, Tony and I had been calculating just a while ago that a mere 100 calorie per day reduction in intake would result in a sizeable (based on my calculation about fifteen pounds) drop in weight. The 100 calories is exactly 5% of 2000 in the above example. So, this latest study seems to support the idea that dropping intake just 100 calories at a time may be the best method of making the transition to full CR status. My suggestion is to drop intake by one hundred calories and wait for the first to occur of the following: A) Weight drops fifteen pounds, or Three months has elapsed. Then, once either A) or has occurred, drop another 100 calories from intake and wait for A) or again, and repeat as many times as is judged to be desirable. [One hundred calories is about one banana. Not one heck of a lot. Just resisting that snack between dinner and bedtime would do it for many people.] And I still insist that after a few months restriction my experience is that I no longer want as much food. It is as if my stomach has shrunk in response to the reduction in demand for its services. Some here, I realize, find this latter proposition a bit comical : ^ ))) Rodney. > > I'm not very good with science, so could you clarify for me what 5% CR and > 33% CR would translate into for humans? > > Thank you! > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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