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Hassan Adly)
The premise is as simple as the title - Restricting Caloric intake while optimising the nutritional value of food that you eat... Consider it dieting for nerds, if you will.
Supposedly, laboratory mice subjected to CRON diets lived 50% longer than mice on a normal diet, and moreover remained vigorous and energetic for much longer, relatively. which is why hard core CRON afficiandos aspire to reach a ripe age of 120, whilst enjoying better quality of life.
I like the dieting for nerds quote
I've been doing a similar but bit more basic exercise... as bizarre as it sounds, following the Greek Orthodox calendar. Traditional diets are naturally "calorie optimised", the Orthodox calendar is quite prescriptive in what you can/cannot eat and when, Orthodox monks have extremely low incidences of "lifestyle" disease, I've found my energy levels stay pretty even throughout the day and since removing pretty much all prepackaged/processed foods I feel a hell of a lot better. I've lost most of the post-Christmas stone I put on in a month. And red wine is allowed for most of the calendar so I'm quite happy
One of my favourite Billy Connolly quotes, "if you don't want to be fat, eat less and move around more, it's not difficult"
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And how do you account for dives in your diet (being that diving does ask a bit of energy)
All my diving is at the weekend, luckily most of these are feast days in the calendar!