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Calorie restriction for beginners

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#1 erzebet

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Posted 15 April 2016 - 03:53 PM


Are you a beginner who just stumbled upon the calorie restriction with optimal nutrition experiments? I've been there too. And I noticed that many people would give it a try, but they don't want to count calories, monitor nutrients or weigh ingredients.

 

I wrote a practical guide for you to give it a go without all these. Because life is short. Check out this link:

http://longevitylett...ng-ingredients/

 

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Posted 15 April 2016 - 04:30 PM

This isn't CR at all, and doesn't meet your stated bar of "calorie restriction with optimal nutrition experiments" without the need to "count calories, monitor nutrients or weigh ingredients." Anyone who has actually counted calories, monitored nutrients, and weighed ingredients knows that healthy-sounding as a given diet may be, it always contains suubstantial imbalances when Calories are substantially restricted and you don't have the 'slop factor' of the additional foods that go into normal or excessive Calories — and the specific diet you outline is even less likely to work out nutritionally. Don't believe me? Take your guidelines, and actually spend a day where you count calories, monitor nutrients, and weigh ingredients ;) . Then put it into nutrition software. You'll see.

 

Also, you've mistakenly superimposed findings from BMI epidemiology derived from people not practicing CR to derive BMI goals for people who are on CR. The AL BMIs in epidemiology and of individual people still eating AL are input; BMI after going on CR is an output.


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#3 erzebet

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Posted 16 April 2016 - 06:03 PM

I used to track daily nutrients for a couple of months, but I found it a waste of my time - at least 1 hour per day. My diet hasn't changed at all and I'm getting enough nutrients - at least judging after the (biased) nutritional software. I didn't outline any diet - only suggestions. I'm certainly not a vegetarian and I didn't go into animal products in that article. It was an introduction only, that's all.

 

If anybody wants to track calories and nutrients, I suggested nutritiondata.self.com. But I don't do it anymore. Because once you know the basics, there is no added return. Frankly, from what I talked to people, many find out about the CR experiments on animals and would give CRON a try, but counting calories and nutrients takes a lot of time and they give up.

 

The population practicing CR is a minority, so I went after the lowest mortality BMI in general. Because supposedly one practices CRON to decrease their mortality risk, thereby increasing their lifespan if not healthspan. And that is the BMI people should be after when embarking on CRON. You may reap the benefits of longevity if your BMI falls to the lower limit of the normal, but you don't want to decrease it further.

 

And as a side note, the long-lived people I met as a geriatrician are those of normal weight where the BMI tends to the average. They were thin, but not skinny. Sure, this is anecdotal evidence, so use the BMI study I quoted here because the larger the sample, the more trustworthy the results are.

http://www.ncbi.nlm....les/PMC2662372/


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