On Nov 10, 2004, at 12:50 am, Paleogal wrote:
> http://www.betterhumans.com/News/news.aspx?articleID=2004-10-25-2

I've been thinking about calorific restriction a lot lately.  I
switched to eating generally in the evening only (one or two meals a
day) at the same time people started discussing intermittent fasting.
Are CR and IF essentially two sides of the same coin, or do they have a
different effect on the body?

Applying some paleo thinking to the whole idea, intermittent fasting
seems the more natural way to eat.  After all, if you have to hunt to
eat, you don't go out and hunt a leg in the morning, some belly in the
afternoon and a shoulder at night- you hunt a whole pig (or whatever)
in one go.  Now the meat will keep for a short while, especially with
some sort of smoking and salting (another discussion), but really it is
best to eat as much as possible there and then.  So perhaps we should
be asking, not why CR and IF extend life, but why frequent over-eating
shortens it.

Everyone I work with think I am mad and tell me how unhealthy I am, how
the best way to eat is little and often, etc- based of course on
pseudo-science and not the paleo principle, which I haven't yet
explained in detail.

Hopefully within a few months I will be happy enough eating just late
at night that I can try eating every other day (or perhaps, eating meat
every other day).  I'd really like to know if this can be managed
comfortably, without excessive hunger.  Or has anyone here tried this?
Or heard of a society that does it routinely?

Ashley