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Story from New York Magazine about a Calorie Restriction diet subculture. That is, people who eat as few calories per day as they can, carefully measuring out exactly the nutrient quantities their body needs and not a scrap more, with the hope that it will add (all things being equal) decades to their lifespan.

I had heard about the experiments with lab animals, where it's proven to work, but didn't know that people were doing this. I imagined that nobody would want to live in a state of constant hunger.

This sounds exactly like the sort of thing I'd jump into wheeee and then forget about two days later. Still quite intriguing.

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Alan Alda interviewed a man who does the calorie restricted diet thing for one of his Scientific American Frontiers episodes. He also went into the labs that tested the diet on animals. It was an interesting episode. Don't remember the name, and not sure you can find it online, but maybe it'll come around on tv.