Re: rapidly starting CR-diet

[Guest guest]

Jef: The rapid reorientation method does not mean that you can't start

right away, full speed ahead with the healthy eating part of the diet. But

you need to slow down any rapid weight loss after the initial rapid weight

loss which usually occurs in the first 3 months or so of the diet. I

suggest you read Dr W's books for clear guidance, especially " Beyond The 120

Year Diet " . His books are in most public libraries.

on 4/6/2003 7:52 PM, nutrinaut at neologisticscald@... wrote:

> Hello there,

> I read at Roy Walford's CR-site that you can follow the rapid method

> in starting CR-diet. But in an interview he tells that mice rapidly

> put on a CR didn't got expanded life-spans. What am I to believe

> here? If I start tomorrow I will just age normally because I started

> too rapidly? I find that hard to believe. Can anybody tell me

> what's the truth, because I'm dying to start dieting.

> Jef

>

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[Guest guest]

> I read at Roy Walford's CR-site that you can follow the

> rapid method in starting CR-diet. But in an interview he

> tells that mice rapidly put on a CR didn't got expanded

> life-spans. What am I to believe here? If I start

> tomorrow I will just age normally because I started too

> rapidly? I find that hard to believe. Can anybody tell me

> what's the truth, because I'm dying to start dieting.

The " Rapid Orientation method " Walford describes (e.g. on

http://www.walford.com/aastart.htm) only lasts for four weeks.

Walford gives two reasons why rapid weight loss might not

be healthy.

The first concerns the possibilty of release of fat-soluble

pesticides into the bloodstream faster than the body can detoxify

them.

The second is the hypothesis that early CR experiments failed to

extend life because the diet was imposed too rapidly.

Walford discusses this on p.50 and p.78 of BT120YD.

This hypothesis seems to have become widely accepted -

but Walford's assertion on p.50 is rather vague - and

it is not clear to me whether the issue has been

formally studied.

Certainly not /everyone/ agrees with the idea that slow is good -

e.g.:

``The extensive human experience (with what is essentially a varient

of CR) by the Natural Hygiene movement (Nature Cure in Britain) over

the past century & a half (at least a total well into 6 figure

in the U.S. in this century who have fasted and/or adopted a raw

diet) has led to the conclusion that the faster you drop the weight

the better. The notion that we need to ease into CR over a # of

years has seemed to me to be almost a superstition.''