Sweet! This is exactly the sort of diet I’ve followed when training hard for climbing. In the past (pre-Jack) I cut my daily calorie intake to around 2000 calories to stay light, but still ate a balanced diet, just less quantity. Yeah, it’s hard, and you generally need good motivation to do it. This new info should add to that motivation:
“For the first time, we’ve shown that calorie restriction is feasible and has a tremendous effect on the risk of atherosclerosis and diabetes.”
“They were found to have the health of people decades younger, the study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences said….The group, whose average age was 50, had blood pressure readings similar to that of the average 10-year-old.”
We already knew that calorie restriction reduces the risk of cancer and prolongs life in lab animals (reduced free radicals knackering up your cells, dontcha know?). This is another load of very welcome research. Eat less you fatties!
Read the full article on BBC news.
