One of the biggest challenges that serious, long-term calorie restrictors face is eating enough calories to maintain their weight. Digesting high fiber food choices can be difficult if you aren’t used to it. Your bowels can slow down, and eating a lot could be difficult for you, much less maintaining a healthy gut microbiome.… read more
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Calorie Restriction – the CR Way: Getting Started
The CR Way community is about living better longer. We don’t like the words limit and restrict. Happiness, satisfaction – realizing your full potential – is what the CR Way is about. So before you limit one calorie, find out how to manage your happiness and satisfaction levels so unhealthy comfort foods won’t be so… read more
The Science of Caloric Restriction: What’s to be gained, what’s to be learned?
Restricting calories has been shown to extend healthspan in a variety of species, including yeast, worms, fish, fruit flies, rodents and dogs. But results of studies on our close evolutionary cousins, rhesus monkeys, have been contradictory and controversial. Studies on humans who live a “caloric-restricted lifestyle” show improved cardiovascular health – but it is… read more
CR Way Produces Younger Genetic Profile
For the first time in history we have confirmation that long-term serious calorie restriction slows aging at the cellular level in human beings. Dr. Luigi Fontana’s marvelous new paper: Calorie Restriction in Humans Inhibits the PI3K/AKT Pathway and Induces a Younger Transcription Profile. You can read the full paper on the latest blog on livingthecrway.com.… read more
Calorie Restriction Diet Plans – Lose Weight and Extend Life
A calorie restriction diet should be about more than just about weight loss. Dieters can improve their health, prevent disease, and get the best chance to extend their lives through the CR Way approach. Many LivingTheCRWay.com members follow a diet similar to that described in this study* of elderly Okinawans who followed calorie restriction for… read more