[ExI] PaleoCRON?

[Jones Murphy]

CRON doesn't trade away intensity for duration per se. It trades away
youthful intensity(from a period when one has lots to spare) for
middle age and later intensity(during a period when this means
avoiding a lot of aches and pains and more serious problems) AND
duration, a very big difference.

On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Stefano Vaj <stefano.vaj at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 26 April 2011 10:44, Jones Murphy <morphy at alumni.caltech.edu> wrote:
>> Unfortunately none of us will be around to see the results of
>> long-term whole-life human studies on Paleo 2.0 ad-lib versus
>> CRON(Calorie restriction with optimal nutrition) diets. The two are
>> not mutually exclusive, but I suspect reasonably strict(say 30% or
>> tougher) CRON of any kind(including PaleoCRON) will end up trumping
>> ad-lib Paleo.
>
> I think we all have some anedoctical evidence as to the dividends of
> caloric restriction, but I suspect they may be especially important
> when nutrition is NOT optimal, in particular in terms of
> proportionally high carb intake.
>
> I am inclined to believe both that carb damages are somewhat limited
> if you eat very little of anything (see famine societies...), and that
> eating very little of anything make for a slower, more parsimonious
> metabolism anyway.
>
> OTOH, one wonders what's the point of exchanging performance and
> intensity against duration. A distinctly anti-transhumanist attitude,
> if one asks me.
>
> --
> Stefano Vaj
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