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June 20, 2008
Frequently Asked Questions Re: CR, April, and Is My Boyfriend Really Orange?
Here's a re-post of my FAQ, for anyone who is joining our regularly scheduled adventure already in progress:
What is Calorie Restriction with Optimal Nutrition? (CR Society website)
How can you eat so little and still not be hungry, get the nutrition you need, and feel fabulous?
So even if we just want to lose weight and feel better, not necessarily pursue serious CR for life-extension, we can learn stuff from this blog?
Yikes! That sounds really hard! Where can I order them online and have them shipped right to my door?
Are you trying to convince other people to practice CR? No.
CR sounds great, but what about biomedical interventions into the aging process? Wouldn't that be better?
Yeah, that would be a whole lot better! What can I do to make it happen?
Are you all just rich snotty holier than thou selfish people who want to make other people miserable by being thin and healthy and eating kale?
Yeah, but do you have any fun?
People often assume that thin people hate fat people. Before we are so shallow as to make that assumption about you, why don't you tell us what you think?
So what did you eat before you started CR?
That's about food policy. We're looking for books about CR.
Who called your boyfriend an oompa-loompa? Is he really that orange? No, but my kitchen is.
Will CR slow the biological aging process in humans, the way it does in every mammal in which it's been tested? We don't know. Will Aubrey de Grey and the forces of good find radical anti-aging biotech in time for me?
I don't know.
But a reliable source told me over the weekend that I look better now than I did in college. And that, my friends, is reason enough.
Posted by april at June 20, 2008 1:15 PM
Comments
I'm glad you are back home safely. So proud of you both.
Posted by: Marti at June 22, 2008 11:18 AM
Hi April,
I've been practicing CR for 15 months now and just started reading your blog. This post (and its links) provided quite a bit of information. Thank you for posting it. Somewhere on one of the linked posts you recommended no more than 10 g saturated fat per day. Do you have any recommendations for MUFA & PUFA, or n3 & n6?
I've currently got my targets at 14g saturated, 9g mono, 9g omega-3, 11g omega-6. But these are wild guesses and impossible to meet (I'm usually way over on the MUFA)
Posted by: Jessica at June 23, 2008 2:38 PM
Regards the FAQs, there has been a new study recently about resveratrol an its (possible) benefits for humans ... can you get the latest opinion from the Orange Wizard and inform us whether it is at all advisable to spend our hard earned money for resveratrol. Will the advice be different for people at diffeent BMI's and ages? What is CR consensus opinion on using resveratrol?Thanks.
Posted by: CRWilliam at June 23, 2008 11:02 PM
Regards FAQs: Have you and MR Orange noticed any significant changes in clinical and blood test results ... like total cholesterol, wbc count, blood pressure, hdl and ldl, cortisol, body temperature, etc?
Posted by: CRWilliam at June 23, 2008 11:12 PM
Hi Jessica!
Welcome, and thank you for your kind words. Re: distribution of fats, I try to balance the 3s and 6s, and I probably don't do as well as I should. My main fat sources are two teaspoons of flax oil a day (one morning, one night) and a lot of almonds and some avocado, plus whatever oil is in things like red sauce when I eat out (had some mussels marinara yesterday, for example.) I really should do a better job of monitoring for specific targets.
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Posted by: april at June 24, 2008 1:24 AM
Hi William,
We have noticed pretty big changes in our blood work and such: blood pressure gone way down (mine is 90/70, MRs is even lower though I don't know quite what offhand and he is asleep now!), his body temp is quite low, like two degrees below normal, mine is a bit lower than it was but I always ran high pre-CR. Our total cholesterol is low, though mine was lower when I was a vegan. Don't remember the numbers off the top of my head but MR has all the paperwork for the CR study.
Re: resveratrol, if we're thinking of the same study, that was in non-CR'd animals, and seemed to help those who were already overweight suffer less from the effects of being overweight, but the same results would not necessarily apply to those of us who haven't elevated our risk factors by becoming overweight. MR still says that the epidemiology on red wine is good enough that he recommends a glass a night, with food (and by glass he means 3 oz)but not taking resveratrol, as yet.
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Posted by: april at June 24, 2008 1:28 AM
Heya April!,
A link to the albatross really needs to be part of this FAQ, I've been looking around forever for that legendary document and all the links to it seem to be dead.
Thank you kindly.
Posted by: Chuck at June 24, 2008 7:28 PM
Thanks for the stats and the resveratrol update. Great blood pressure numbers! :>)
Posted by: CRWilliam at June 28, 2008 12:58 PM