The Curious Case Of Caloric Restriction

[joanmhe]

Speaking of why people eat more than they need, and what triggers appetite, watch tv between 9 and 10 at night to see how many commercials for pizza and lousy restaurants there are. I haven't seen many comments on this - probably nobody on these forums watches tv (except for Oprah), but I do think this is contributing to the obesity epidemic. Even though I do not eat food like that advertised, it's hard not to get up and grab something to eat after watching one of these commercials. Have stopped watching tv...

[openeyes]

Originally Posted by joanmhe

watch tv between 9 and 10 at night to see how many commercials for pizza and lousy restaurants there are. I haven't seen many comments on this - probably nobody on these forums watches tv (except for Oprah), but I do think this is contributing to the obesity epidemic.

no tv, just watch netflix and ted.com online

I wonder how much of a difference it's made for me to not be seeing dozens of commercials per day. The last time I watched tv was when I was at my parent's home, and even then for the last few years it was only via DVR so commercials could be skipped.

[aggie]

good grief, i NEVER watch oprah

i don't watch a huge amount of tv...but the commercials for all that nasty heart attack on a plate food does nothing to influence what i eat whatsoever.

[Kasha]

I'm 33 now, and eat much less than when I was 15. I remember eating steaks, plates of rice and salad at one sitting. I also weighed 190 pounds back then.

For the past 10 years I've been incorporating vegetarian principles and fasting into my way of eating, and through trial and error I am coming up with a diet that fuels my workouts and sustains me. Curious thing though...I keep on modifying it slowly to include less and less bulk, yet more concentrated nutrition.

I work out 2-3 hours a day, and am a personal trainer, yet subsist on between 1000 and 1400 calories...and that number keeps dropping yet my strength and endurance continues to improve. I also find the less I eat, the better I feel.

[stanmrak]

Here Oprah comes on at 4pm, followed by Dr. Phil. 3 out every 4 commercials are for pharmaceuticals... no exaggeration.

[BoBoGuy]

Juan Ponce de Leon and James Hilton had it all wrong. The fountain of youth isn't in Florida, where 16th-century Spanish explorer Ponce de Leon went searching for it. And Shangri-la isn't stuck way up in the Himalayas, where Hilton, author of Lost Horizon, placed his fictional paradise, whose inhabitants never aged.

The nearest thing to a real-life refuge from the ravages of old age and death is here on the Japanese island of Okinawa in the East China Sea.

The below is an excerpt from the documentary "How to live to 101".

YouTube - On living longer

Bo