Pass the salt
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rserocki: Biologists are making progress in isolating why calorie restriction extends animals' lifespans. This is encouraging news.
I thank the CR community for helping to keep life extension in the headlines, making news like this more visible, but their implementation is not one for most people. (Understatement.) My interest in CR stops at being mindful to avoid eating when I'm not actually hungry - which is good, but it isn't even scratching the surface of what its real practitioners do. (Which is, basically, to avoid eating when they are actually hungry.) I admire and support their commitment, and I am sure they're right about all the side benefits of their koo-koo diet (such as out-of-whack hormone generation giving them a feeling of continual elation), but still I think I'll hold out for the pill version.
rserocki: Biologists are making progress in isolating why calorie restriction extends animals' lifespans. This is encouraging news. I thank the CR community for helping to keep life extension in the headlines, making news like this more visible, but their implementation is not one for most people. (Understatement.) My interest in CR stops at being mindful to avoid eating when I'm not actually hungry - which is good, but it isn't even scratching the surface of what its real practitioners do. (Which is, basically, to avoid eating when they are actually hungry.) I admire and support their commitment, and I am sure they're right about all the side benefits of their koo-koo diet (such as out-of-whack hormone generation giving them a feeling of continual elation), but still I think I'll hold out for the pill version.
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Date: 2007-05-03 06:13 pm (UTC)Really? You are? Why?
Look, over the years, only *one* thing has seemed to be repeatedly true when studied longitudinally: eat a wide variety of foods, preferably some in a form not so far distinguished from how they came out of the ground, and get enough exercise and sleep. Also, everything causes cancer, probably even exercise and sleep. Even "drink lots of water" has come under fire in recent years.
Do what makes you feel healthy. Everything else will be disproved in 10 years, anyway.
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Date: 2007-05-03 06:30 pm (UTC)What I really meant is that I support them in doing what they like with their bodies and share their confusion at the many people hurling venom at them. But really that's all off-topic.
You core notion of a varied diet, decent exercise and good sleep is quite correct! And I get what you're saying about the "LOOKING AT PURPLE THINGS LINKED WITH HANGNAIL" headlines that will always be with us, but there's a baby in that bathwater. I am not interested in being happy with my lot.