{"id":700,"date":"2009-07-20T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-20T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/?p=700"},"modified":"2009-07-20T14:30:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-20T14:30:00","slug":"calorie-restriction-for-life-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/?p=700","title":{"rendered":"Calorie restriction for life extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case anyone is curious, after the weight-loss phase of my new dietary regimen is complete, I will be following this discipline, recently discussed in the news, for the rest of my life: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/science\/articles\/2009\/07\/09\/low_calorie_diet_slows_aging_in_monkeys\/\" target=\"_blank\">Low-calorie diet slows aging in monkeys<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been reading about this phenomenon for a number of years now, and I&#8217;ve always wanted to try it. Until this year, when I finally broke the chocolate jones and established some solid new routines and &#8220;best practices,&#8221; I couldn&#8217;t quite get there. But I&#8217;ve never been a big eater, and I think that probably has something to do with how slowly I&#8217;m aging. Maybe not&#8211;I also have longevity genes from my dad&#8217;s side of the family, and small people tend to age more slowly. But there&#8217;s something very empowering about controlling your diet successfully. It&#8217;s <em>extremely<\/em> difficult to do.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve calculated my Base Metabolic Rate and calorie needs via elaborate mathematical formulae, and right now I&#8217;m eating approximately 50%-60% of that and losing one to one and half pounds per week. The &#8220;restricted calorie&#8221; regimen will be 70%-80%, and I&#8217;ll continue to increase my workouts progressively. I won&#8217;t let my weight get too low&#8211;although, with my history, I&#8217;m honestly not expecting that to be a problem. More information on Calorie Restriction (CR) <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Calorie_restriction\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case anyone is curious, after the weight-loss phase of my new dietary regimen is complete, I will be following this discipline, recently discussed in the news, for the rest of my life: Low-calorie diet slows aging in monkeys. I&#8217;ve &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/?p=700\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}