The key to longevity: Dont eat anything

I was watching Oprah (big surprise) and they had Dr Oz on talking about people living forever. Okay, to 150 but who's counting? Here's a link to the show.

I've read about calorie restriction as a healthy way of living from Dr. Joel Fuhrman as well. He also talked about eating less helping you reduce inflammation in the body. Inflammation seems to be a precursor to a lot of disease.

Calorie restriction isnt a starvation, pro-ana diet (800 cals or less). From what I heard on Oprah, the practitioners of the calorie restriction lifestyle ate about 1500 cals a day for women and about 1900/2000 for men. Another important key to this lifestyle is making sure the calories you eat are nutrient dense - like nuts, fruit, veggies, etc. Not ricecakes. . . . The man on Oprah ate the apple skin only because thats where all the nutrients were. He had a bowl of the apple skin, 2 oz of nuts, and maybe some berries (?) and made the statement [loosely quoted] "this is my breakfast, it has more nutrients than what most people eat in a day or two." That REALLY made an impact on me. Why do we eat? A huge part of that is to receive nutrients. And when you eat chocolate or fast food or sugary drinks or even diet drinks, you aren't intaking nutrients. What good are the chemicals that make up that food if it doesnt nourish your cells in any sort of helpful way?

My diet has been mediocre over the past few days. I will use the Oprah show (maybe not Oprah necessarily ...) to be my thinspiration so I can eat a nutrient dense, low calorie diet.

Yayyyyyyy. (that was sarcastic sounding).

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