From: Ian Goddard (Ian@Goddard.net)
Date: Thu May 23 2002 - 19:53:44 MDT
>---------- Harvey Newstrom <mail@HarveyNewstrom.com> writes:
> > After practicing CR with optimal nutrition for 6 months
> > my own experience is consistent with such findings. At
> > 37, I've never felt more energetic in my entire life.
> > Before CR I looked roughly my age. Now, my receded
> > hairline aside, I might pass for a 24-year old.
>
>Congratulations! Good for you! I wish you Live Long and Prosper!
>
>This is exactly how I felt after turning vegetarian. I am now convinced
>that most if not all of the vegetarian benefits were because of CR.
>There is no question in any case that lower-calorie, lower-fat, higher
>fiber, high protein diets are good for you. More energy, clearer
>thinking, and less fatigue are reported by all different people.
>
>This is probably the most influential change people can make, to improve
>their bodies, their minds and their lives.
IAN: Thanks Harvey! After looking into CR it also occurred
to me that stories I'd heard from people who began practicing
raw-food vegan diets -- stories about all kinds of amazing and
youthful effects -- were probably attributable more to the CR
inherent in such diets. However, it also stands to reason that
such diets would be better than eating half the amount of a
normal diet. As such, they probably enjoy benefits of both CR
and better diet. Also, a high-fiber diet can help to make one
feel full with fewer calories, and to thereby be less hungry.
The increased energy is really dramatic. Without question I
would do CR for this benefit alone. It opens up my evenings
after a busy day to intellectual activities, whereas before
I would have to struggle to stay alert and even awake. So the
bottom line is CR may not only yield more lifetime in the long
run, but it yields more lifetime in the present. I'm still only
beginning to realize how amazing CR is. There is, at least for
me, absolutely no sense of "restriction," depravation, denial,
or missing pleasure. In fact, I get pleasure from knowing I
don't have to eat much to be full and happy. Once you get to
this point (of being full with less) you can see the mistake
people are making to assume that happiness comes from another
slice of cake and that eating less is a diminution of living.
What this suggests to me -- given that we can not only live
with less food, but liver better -- is that normal eating
patterns are perhaps more indicative an addictive disorder,
ie, a habitual behavior that reduces overall well being. But
then I'm not one to impose my concept of "disorder" on others.
"To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals." Ben Franklin
http://www.ultrahiq.net/Ubiquity/Winter02/CR.html
Fat to Thin: http://IanGoddard.net/me-cr.htm
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