Make every calorie count. Simply cutting calories and not focusing on proper nutrition can lead to nutrient deficiencies, so be sure to load up on nutrient-dense foods, including vegetables and fish.It’s a tantalizing idea: Adapt your diet so that you consume fewer calories than your body burns and, as a result, you’ll live longer.
That’s a fundamental point. Calorie restriction necessitates eating nutrient-dense foods and monitoring intake of essential nutrients, because a calorie-reduced diet that’s deficient in amino acids, fatty acids and/or micronutrients isn’t going to bestow the health and longevity benefits.
Participants’ individual calorie prescriptions were 25 per cent less than the total number of calories their bodies burned each day; total daily energy expenditure was measured by a scientific technique called the doubly labelled water method.Participants were lean or just slightly overweight and already had cardiovascular and metabolic health markers in the normal range.
The improvements in blood pressure, cholesterol, glucose, inflammatory markers and insulin sensitivity were over and above what would be expected from weight loss alone, hinting that calorie restriction itself plays a role.
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