CR people

[prog]

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.

Comments

[grr-plus1.livejournal.com]

One major problem is more that very few people would be able to stay on the CR diet. My guess is that those who do stay on it are metabolic oddities with unusual abilities to control their appetite. There's also a bit too much of a semblance of self-delusion while dancing around anorexia. So, even if there were health benefits (the claims of which I would guess are exaggerated, or at least not really backed up by clinical studies), this is not the immediate wave of the future - because, currently, 99% of the population would be physically/mentally incapable of choosing to stay on the CR diet.

[prog.livejournal.com]

To this I say: bingo.