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Comment author: gwern 11 December 2011 11:08:11PM 3 points [-]

I read a chimp study that showed CR chimps lived longer but had terrible quality of life compared to the fat happy sly contented ad libitum eaters. That suggests it's a tradeoff between living longer slowly and living faster richly.

Or living at all: http://junkfoodscience.blogspot.com/2009/07/calorie-restrictive-eating-for-longer.html

Comment author: ksvanhorn 12 December 2011 12:27:34AM 0 points [-]

Thanks for the link. That's information I hadn't encountered before. Sounds like the case for CR isn't as strong as I thought.

Comment author: Kevin 13 December 2011 08:00:05PM 1 point [-]

It also sounds like most or all of the benefits of CR can be had via intermittent fasting.

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