Re: 98 Yr Old Friend Just Died

[Guest guest]

Excellent point, Francesca. Also, I wonder if some cronies obsess overly about exact nutritional content of food, recipes, and variety. I find that two meals only, as healthy as I can make them

[Guest guest]

Sorry---my laptop sends at will. I find two meals, as healthy as possible, and as little thought about food as practical, within pretty strict calorie limits, works very well. It helps that I do not like to cook very much!

Peg

[Guest guest]

Being thin does not always correlate with the practise of CR. I was very

thin almost all of my adult life, could eat anything I wanted, as much as I

wanted, and never gained weight. I know just as many thin people who died

young as lived long. In fact, thinness is only a usual side effect of CR,

not the aim. The aim is to cut calories while eating optimally in terms of

nutrition. Some on this regimen don't lose that much weight, although most

do - but being thin is not the aim..

I know I'm on CR because of my bloodwork and my increased resistance to

colds and illness as compared to my previous resistance pre-CR (when I was

skin and bones you might say). Being thin is not a marker. Also I would

guess that genes have more to do with long life than being thin. In fact,

they're presently searching for a " longevity gene " .

on 8/7/2003 7:22 AM, Carol, getting conscious at 12steplists@...

wrote:

> First, she was always very thin -- and I'm pretty sure a vegetarian --

> so I'm quite sure she practiced CR, unconciousness if not consciously.

[Guest guest]

From Peg: I try to delay my first meal until about 10 (age 70 and obviously retired), and the second is about 6. I can get away with their being pretty substantial, I think because in between the kitchen is closed for me. Just seems to work.

[Guest guest]

Peg, am curious... do you perfer your 2 meals at same time every day...

if so, what times? Thanks,

hsanborn2@... wrote:

> Sorry---my laptop sends at will. I find two meals, as healthy as

> possible, and as little thought about food as practical, within pretty

> strict calorie limits, works very well. It helps that I do not like

> to cook very much!

>

> Peg

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