Those who say calorie restriction - more properly called calorie normality - is starvation, have a poor fund of knowledge. Calorie normality is not starvation - it's NORMALITY!
To quit smoking means to TOTALLY quit smoking.
To quit eating calorie heavy disease causing foods means to TOTALLY quit eating calorie heavy disease causing foods.
When one quits smoking, breathing fresh air feels good.
Likewise when you are UN-ADDICTED to eating junky food, eating clean food feels really good.
Because originally we lived in warm tropical places over our long pre-weapon
evolutionary time, the most easily available foods there were high nutrition, low calorie green leafy vegetables and fruits (including botanical fruits, like cucumbers, zucchini, and eggplants etc.) mixed with a few tubers and roots.
That's pretty much the best diet for long life - but now we know it's the best diet and lifestyle, not because of sentimentally wanting to go back in time, but because modern science has established the fact.
Hunting and significant meat eating came much later when humans moved out of the tropics (metaphorically out of Eden). Mass whole grain eating came even later. Processed "foods" arrived within the last half-blink of an eye.
The point is that we are physically predisposed to eat a high nutrient, low calorie whole plant-food based diet. Thus the mantra - "eat more fruits and vegetables".
Unfortunately the "eat more ..." mantra may actually be a carefully crafted misleading statement "allowed" by certain industries. A seemingly small misstatement, but it is like the difference between a flat earth and the earth as it is.
The "eat more..." part is wrong and misleading in as much as it more or less indicates you should just add a few fruits & vegetables to your wrong diet. And the order of fruits and vegetables is wrong - it should be vegetables first and then fruits (by a factor of importance of 2 to 1).
As far as lifestyle exercise is concerned - the historically adapted standard is daily mild physical exertion.
Calorie restriction is normal. CR (calorie restriction) is evolutionarily normal. Calorie restriction is calorie-normality.
The Best Diet For Long Life - A Plant-based Diet or Plant-lifecycle Based Diet is totally satisfying, in all respects.
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Just like a winning race car performs best with a specific type of fuel delivered at a specific rate - our body quickly reacts to heal itself and reverse aging & disease when given the ideal type & amount of fuel.
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What is the ideal type of fuel?
What is the ideal amount of fuel?
Type:
By modern scientific analysis we have learned that antioxidants and protein's amino acids are created, and appear first in the humble leaf (i.e. green leafy vegetables). Per calorie, dark green leafy vegetables are about 40% protein.
Calorie restriction / calorie normality studies have established that excess calories are toxic. Therefore healthy foods have the most nutrients in each calorie consumed.
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Center for Nutrition Policy & Promotion in 2005:
"It is important to focus on nutrient dense (ND) foods that deliver a high proportion of what your body needs for their amount of calories."
Calories increase without increasing nutrient-to-calorie ratios as we go downstream in the lifecycle or growth cycle from the leaf to the flower, then to the fruit, then the seed, and on to animal products and "junk" processed foods.
It's not me saying this - anyone can see the fact if they carefully analyze the USDA Nutrient Data Base's nutrients per calorie tables.
Please note the BIG MISCONCEPTION in nutrition is the universal reporting of nutrients per gram, which is HIGHLY misleading (CR studies have proven this). Reporting nutrients per gram is the FLAT EARTH theory of nutrition.
Everything goes down hill from the leaf. At the bottom of the hill are processed and animal foods, which are poor nutrient per calorie foods. Lifelong repeated intake of processed and animal foods (low nutrient, high calorie foods) causes cumulative repetitive low-level systemic stress inflammation, leading to all kinds of degenerative diseases of affluence.
The ideal type of food is dark green leafy and bud/flower vegetables (by far); followed by vegetables that are botanical fruits including fruits like cucumber, zucchini, eggplant etc.; and then regular fruits headed by berries.
Amount:
Calorie restriction, actually calorie normality studies since 1935 have established that excess calories (from low nutrient, high calorie foods) are extremely toxic and inflammatory.
Calorie normality is the ONLY intervention that repeatedly, conclusively and SIGNIFICANTLY delays and reduces age related diseases; and repeatedly, conclusively and SIGNIFICANTLY extends both average and maximum life expectancy. (Resveratrol from grapes and other plants is pending - but certainly fits right in with The Best Diet For Long Life.)
Even without so-called "restriction" of amounts eaten, calorie restriction errr... calorie normality, has established green leafy and solid green vegetables like broccoli; fruit vegetables; and berries/fruits as the ideal fuel. Excess calories come from heavy, processed and animal foods.
As far as the mantra: "eat more fruits & vegetables" - let's fine tune (or rather: destroy and rebuild) that statement to realize unheard of healing & rejuvenating power.
By eating MOSTLY ONLY high volume, high nutrition, high antioxidant, low calorie VEGETABLES (dark green leafy vegetables especially being high protein per calorie foods) & FRUITS you can realize truly amazing disease preventing, life extending benefits without hunger or starvation. This is the conclusion of modern nutritional science, and of a logical analysis of our long tropical and sub-tropical pre-weapon evolutionary eating patterns. Organized hunting and animal domestication did not begin until an evolutionary minute ago.
The conclusion of modern marketing and other industries is, "...eat more fruits and vegetables". Their "more" is wrong, and their "fruits and vegetables" is in the wrong order. The "fruits and vegetables" order mistake is wrong, as is the "more" mistake.
The difference between, "... eat more fruits & vegetables" and "... eat MOSTLY ONLY green leafy vegetables, 'fruit vegetables', and berries/fruits", again is like the difference between a flat earth and the earth as it is - all the difference.
A few other diets like a plant-based whole grains & beans starch diet with vegetables and fruits are doable diets but are not the best. The MOSTLY ONLY green leafy vegetables, 'fruit vegetables', and berries/fruits NUTRIENT RICH DIET is the very BEST doable diet there is for health and longevity by far.
Nutrient richness, also called nutrient density, follows the growing lifecycle of the plant.
In other words, the leaf comes first in nutrient richness, then the flower, then the fruit and then the seed. More on this later.
The ideal amount of food is the amount of the ideal types of food that just fills (but not over-fills) your stomach at one to three sitting each day (depending on your activity and metabolism).
Drink all the good tasting water you want any time.
Have a piece of your favorite fruit any time.
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