Sorry I should have search the book before assuming.RRM wrote:No, its based on adequate energy intake.Kookaburra wrote: I thought the Wai diet provides all the nutrients that you need even though your calorie intake is lower.
From the free book page 20:
I mistook protein for nutrients. Having said that, take a look at this quote from the wiki article on Very low calorie diet:Comparing minimal requirements for essential amino acids to fruitamino
acid contents, it appears that even if you ate only different fruits and some Brazil nuts,
you would lack energy before you could possibly lack protein.
It contradicts your view that without adequate energy intake, one cannot meet all the required nutrients.Very low calorie diet (VLCD) is a diet with very or extremely low calorie consumption per day. It is defined medically as a diet of 800 kilocalories per day or less. VLCDs are formulated, nutritionally complete, liquid meals containing 800 calories or less per day. VLCDs also contain the recommended daily requirements for vitamins, minerals, trace elements, fatty acids and protein.
Calorie restriction is bound to make you lose weight.RRM wrote:Yes, i know.Kookaburra wrote: Calorie restriction without malnutrition[1] has been shown to improve age-related health and to slow the aging process in a wide range of animals and some fungi.
But is says: "without malnutrition".
If you keep on losing weight, thats malnutrition.
The reason why it slows down aging, is because it slows down cell replication.
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From the wiki article on calorie restriction:
According to you, if you lose weight, that's malnutrition. Then in that case, calorie restriction without malnutrition cannot happen at all which is not true.Several studies conducted in this sense revealed that dieters who restricted calories for 12 months had lower muscle mass