Re: Is Calorie Restriction Really Different From Anorexia?

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My first thought about that article is how irresponsible it was, not to mention obviously colored by the author's own struggles with anorexia nervosa. My second thought was how uninformative it was . I mean, we all know that some CR practitioners are very close to being arorexic, but CR itself and the vast majority of practitioners are far from danger.

My third thought is amazement at how obvious the difference is, and the whole article is pointing out similarities, but the one huge difference is the most important one: CRONies are not unhealthy! Isn't that the problem with anorexia? That people's health suffers and some die? Who's dying of CR?

To be honest, the author comes off as just jealous, "Hey, I had to stop! So, how come *they* get to do it?".

chris

[ ] Is Calorie Restriction Really Different From Anorexia?

http://www.slate. com/id/2164436/ entry/2164437I have been deleting a lot of emails lately so I hope this is not a duplicatePositive Dennis

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Hi folks:

I whole-heartedly agree with Chris.

There are many people who are unable, for one reason or another, to

do CR. In her case because she is afraid she will fall into anorexia

if she tries. Most of the others because they simply are unable to

restict the amount they eat. So, what can they do to justify their

own failure to implement this obviously enormously healthy

nutritional adjustment? For many it seems criticism of it is the

best defence they can come up with to justify why they cannot do it

themselves.

The two obvious indications of gross bias I noticed were:

A) She did not discuss an average cross-section of people doing

CRON, most of them successfully. Instead it seems likely she

selected people she felt would best help her depict CR as thoroughly

weird. Two of the three actually discussed were sexually 'weird' -

one saying he enjoyed his loss of libido; the other a trans-sexual.

Clearly not even the author would maintain that this is a

representative sample of people on CRON. The only relatively normal

individual described in that piece was our Al. He was chosen because

he had, demonstrably, gone too far. But how representative is he?

Not at all, either.

The second piece of gross bias was to fail to describe the truly

huge longevity benefits in just about every species on which CRON has

been ever been tested. And the omission to even mention the

similarly huge and thoroughly objective health benefits which were

unequivocally demonstrated in the WUSTL study.

If she is a journalist she needs to be fired, as this represents a

most extreme example of what journalists are required not to do.

They are supposed to provide a fair and objective assessment of the

material they are covering. This is off the deep end in the other

direction.

But really, who cares what she thinks? Who really worries about

people who will be dissuaded from CR by this type of (to put it

politely) journalism? Who needs other people to agree with them when

we have all the evidence we are familiar with on our side, not

theirs? For those with enough of what it takes to look into

something like CR, assess the evidence for themselves, and approach

it responsibly, who do you think is going to have the last laugh?

It is not likely to be her. That is for sure.

Rodney.

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> My first thought about that article is how irresponsible it was,

not to mention obviously colored by the author's own struggles with

anorexia nervosa. My second thought was how uninformative it was .

I mean, we all know that some CR practitioners are very close to

being arorexic, but CR itself and the vast majority of practitioners

are far from danger.

>

> My third thought is amazement at how obvious the difference is, and

the whole article is pointing out similarities, but the one huge

difference is the most important one: CRONies are not unhealthy!

Isn't that the problem with anorexia? That people's health suffers

and some die? Who's dying of CR?

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> To be honest, the author comes off as just jealous, " Hey, I had to

stop! So, how come *they* get to do it? " .

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> chris

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> [ ] Is Calorie Restriction Really Different

From Anorexia?

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> http://www.slate. com/id/2164436/ entry/2164437

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> I have been deleting a lot of emails lately so I hope this is not a

> duplicate

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> Positive Dennis

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