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Article: Starve Your Way to Health.(practitioners of calorie restriction movement hope to slow aging process)(California based Calorie Restriction Society)
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- Newsweek International
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- January 26, 2004
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If the world is divided into people who live to eat and those who eat to live, perhaps there ought to be a third category for Brian Delaney. At nearly 1.8 meters and 63 kilograms, Delaney, 40, is really, really thin. Thin, and hungry. He limits his calories to 1,800 a day, in part by eating just two meals, except when he has a dinner date, in which case that's the only meal he eats. After 10 years on this regimen--actually, he started out at 1,400 calories a day, less than half of what the average American male consumes--he still experiences "the same pit in my stomach" every afternoon, but now finds it "easier to deal with." Especially when he thinks of all the diseases ...
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