The Caloric Restriction Diet

There's been lots of talk lately about reducing your caloric intake since Oprah aired a show around it. I think it's funny and impressive how influential she is. Anyway, the other night on Nightline they talked to a guy who's being studied and has been on this diet for 8 years. He's 5'9" and weighs 130lbs which is quite low although he doesn't look too sickly. Not only does he eat most only raw fruits and vegetables, he counts the calories of those too. Instead of eating a whole apple, he will peel the apple and only eat the peels. He claims to have an enormous amount of energy and says he feels better than ever before.

At first this diet seemed to be another fad by some renaming the raw food diet and the like but it does make obvious sense that you would live a longer healthier life by eating naturally as we did at the beginning of man. I'm not sure how I feel about the extremity of the whole thing but I wouldn't be opposed to trying to incorporate more of it into my life. Not to mention that the "side effects" are weight loss, higher muscle mass, higher brain functionality, and increased antioxidants which can give any great diet pill a run for the money. Not that I'm opposed to those either (since I've been known to try quite a few of them). LOL!