Looking for some clarification!

There have been a lot of positive comments on the list about the benefits of
living a calorie-restricted diet way of life.

I have just finished reading some interesting information relating to
calorie-restricted diets on the Weston Price site:

http://www.westonaprice.org/nutrition_guidelines/macronutrientland.html

And would love to understand why people on the list see a calorie-restricted
diet as good when it seems to be shown as really negative by Weston Price,
etal


======extract from Weston Price==========

 Studies have shown "that a lifetime regimen of restriction in  total food
or caloric intake resulted in a remarkable increase in the  length of life
and a reduction in incidence of several debilitating and  life-shortening
diseases," reports Ross boldly.15 Unfortunately,  the "benefits" of
calorie-restriction only accrue when rats  are given severely
calorie-restricted diets immediately after weaning.  Such a regimen actually
results in stunting, impairment of structural,  functional and behavioral
development including reduced learning ability,  and hormonal  deficiencies
that prevent the rats from going through puberty.  When mature rats are
given calorie-restricted diets, the length of life  is either drastically
curtailed or significantly lengthened depending  upon the level of caloric
restriction and the protein-calorie ratio of  the diet. Surprisingly, the
restricted diet imposed at maturity resulting  in the longest survival was a
diet of moderate restriction with a lower  protein level. In older, heavier
rats, the sudden imposition of calorie-restriction  drastically curtailed
the duration of life.

 In one experiment it was reported that rats on normal diets had more  and
larger tumors than those on a calorie-restricted diet. However, close
examination of the data reveals that the calorie-restricted rats had  more
tumors per body area and the tumors were more malignant.16 Very high protein
diets caused a dramatic increase in the incidence of renal, myocardial and
prostatic diseases. The details of these studies should give pause to Sears,
Cordain and others who advocate calorie-restricted diets with high relative
levels of protein.

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John Holman
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