New Clue To Why Eating Fewer Calories Can Help You Live Longer

The old clues were pretty darned good.

You know, not getting cardiovascular disease, diabetes, etc., the things that kill you prematurely.

Not dying early is a very good way to "live longer."

Still, there is an interesting aspect to this research.

It has nothing to do with their attempts to harm you via therapy for being fat.

It has to do with the proposed mechanism.

Without reviewing the technical stuff, here is the conclusion:

"Apparently the mechanism is similar to that produced by exercise."

Not quite.

Their proposed mechanism is similar to that produced by aerobic training.

And aerobic training only since resistance training results in a different type of cellular adaptation.

Also, there is a big difference between exercise and training.

If they are right about the mechanism (once corrected by substituting training for exercise) then doing aerobic training will get you to the same place without the complications of "treatment." (They will not be able to use this research for treating fat people without complications. Treatment complications are a certainty.)

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