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Fusilli with Spinach and Tomato Sauce
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Calorie Restriction: Why There's More To It Than Simply Weight Loss
August 6, 2019
Regardless of what you are told, the only way to lose excess body fat is to eat fewer calories. I have long talked about the benefits of calorie restriction as a way to improve your cardiovascular health thereby improving your healthspan as well. (1-3). A recent analysis of CALERIE (Comprehensive Assessment of Long term Effects of Reducing Intake of Energy), a study looking at two years of prolonged caloric restriction in healthy individuals, found this to be true in “normal weight” subjects (4). I say “normal weight” because although their average BMI was 25, their percent body fat was 33 per cent which is considered to be obese (greater than 25 percent for males and greater than 32 per cent for females). Although they tried to reduce their calorie intake by 25 percent for the two-year study, the best they could achieve was about 12 per cent. This means the calorie-restricted group was eating about 300 fewer calories per day for two years.
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