Alternate Day Fluctuations in Caloric Intake

[Guest guest]

Hi folks:

The following study was posted earlier, before it had been allocated

a PMID number:

" The effect on health of alternate day calorie restriction: Eating

less and more than needed on alternate days prolongs life. "

JB, Laub DR, S.

It now has the PMID: 16529878, and I have added it to

the 'Fundamental CR Studies' file.

Perhaps the following comment in the abstract is, for a couple of

reasons, especially interesting, " We believe widespread use of this

pattern of eating could impact influenza epidemics and other

communicable diseases by improving resistance to infection " .

The first reason is, of course, that there may be a major, and

possibly severe, flu epidemic in the not-too-distant future.

Second, we do not at present have a long list of ways of improving

immunity, while infections are listed among the top ten causes of

death in humans as the immune system degrades with age.

Of course we do not know whether the fluctuating caloric intake

studied in this paper provides any better improvement in immunity

than just straightforward every day CRON.

Rodney.