Starvation is healthy it seems!

[MoonRocker]

http://www.express.co...Eat-less-live-longer-

[L00fah100]

Not starving yourself completely moonrocker.

"THE formula for living longer could be as simple as reducing the amount of food you eat, scientists have found.

And
"Researchers believe that consuming fewer calories can slow down the ageing process"

This would make a lot of sense as the more you eat the more harder your heart and organs work and if you're putting fatty, carb filled oily junk into your body then heart disease and many other ailments and illnesses are building up within the body and will eventually rear their ugly heads.

I went from a size 18 to size ten in just 6 months by stopping alcohol, junk foods, lowering calories, watching what i ate and not having carbs after 4'o'clock and my energy is now through the roof and i look and feel great so it's all linked. X

[emmie]

where does it say starve yourself, just eat less. If people did that, especially junk food, takeaways, then one might find the weight comes off,

[heathfield]

There's a saying in the Middle East - after a meal, one should still feel a little hungry.

[missprim]

Glad I don't live in the middle East heathfileld as I wouldn't want to feel hungry after I've eaten.
if I did, then I'd go and get something else to eat.:-)

[woofgang]

the link between low calorie diets and longevity has been known for years.

[MoonRocker]

I'm not talking about obvious overeaters. This article seems to be saying that regardless of what you now eat take off 40% if you want to live longer. QED starvation.

[woofgang]

yup...been known about for years 1934 to be precise
http://en.wikipedia.o...i/Calorie_restriction

says here it doesn't work for humans
http://livelonger.hub...hub/CR_Life_Extension

[woofgang]

I have just read the article you posted....its really really old news.

[MoonRocker]

well it's the first I've heard of it and it is on a front page today.

[woofgang]

And neither of those facts alter the fact that it is old news. :-)

[cassa333]

This isn't new!!!

Years ago they showed that if at every meal you left the table 'slightly hungry' or 3/4 full gave a longer life span.

[MoonRocker]

Ok well I'm new here so please tell me the rules for what constitutes news clearly I have transgressed. I realise that a lot of what is in news media did not actually originate within the last hour. Perhaps woofgang you can tell me what the rules are as clearly I'm not up with it.

[EDDIE51]

MoonRocker newspapers have a large stock of 'old stories' to dig out if news is thin on the ground. But your post makes a valid point most people today are overweight and need to eat less.

[MoonRocker]

fine but are we supposed to inspect the provenance of a news item to aviod getting berated by the likes of woofgang? On that basis I'd 90% of news is not new.

[EDDIE51]

I think woofgang is over reacting here your post makes a good point in view of the number of overweight people around. The thing that annoys me is when old jokes that I have heard years ago get posted on here as new in the jokes section.Part of phases and sayings in case you have not seen it yet .

[woofgang]

Well but saying that it's on the front page of a paper and "it's the first I've heard of it...... I mean it's been known about since 1934.....what next for a stop press? "who is this chap called Hitler" ??????

[woofgang]

Ps, not only known about but disproved!

[woofgang]

Pps and here's a shocker.......you can't believe everything you read in the papers.....even the stuff on the front page.

[MoonRocker]

So my crime is to not know that something on the front page is old news. I seem to have joined a site for perfect people. I will be looking for your news items in the future for guidance forgive me for infecting your perfect existance.

[IggyB]

Tone it down a bit Woofgang you're putting a dampener on the discussion.

I can't see how these experiments can relate back to humans without first working out what an optimal calorie intake is, cutting 40% intake irrespective of what the baseline is can't lead to a longer life for all (annorexics being the obvious example)