Note that the Mattson studies done with mice and rats on every-other-day
eating/fasting showed that the subjects fed/fasted EOD showed better reductions in
fasting insulin levels while not even losing any weight, than those on
traditional CR. (Check 'Mattson every other day' in Google for references.)

Maddy Mason
Hudson Valley, NY brrrr!

In a message dated 1/19/2004 10:27:19 AM Eastern Standard Time, Ken Stuart
<[log in to unmask] writes:
>> The evidence is pretty substantial that insulin levels have more to
>> do with health and longevity than any other factors (other than, of
>> course, avoiding short-term poisons like arsenic).
>
>Agreed it is a factor in health but as far as longevity, calorie
>restriction is still one of the few things dramatically improving
>life span.

You must have missed the two studies posted to this list recently
demonstrating that calorie restriction affects longevity only by
decreasing insulin.