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Starve Yourself And You Might Live Longer


New scientific research advises us to starve ourselves if we want to live longer. But is it as usual just a case of you will not actually live longer, being permanently hungry on your calorie free diet will just make it seem so.

Starve Yourself And Live Longer
by fatsally
2009-07-10
CREATIVE COMMONS: Attribute, non commercial, no derivs.
KEYWORDS: life, longevity, science, nutrition, diet, health,humour, humor

Starve yourself and you might (MIGHT) live longer is the lastest advice from Nanny State and her faithful cohort, the boy scientist. It is another cheap and obvious attempt to make us all subservient by spreading fear and panic. Judge it in the context of the government's big noise about obesity that tries to make out anybody whose ribs do not beg to be slathered in BBQ sauce is obese.

Another of those scientific studies we so love to hate was released today. This one recommends restricting your calorie intake in order to have a longer life. And how have they proved this promotes (or "might possibly lead to" as scientists never seem to be able to come up with a definitive answer on anything) you living longer. Well they restricted the calorie intake of rhesus monkeys, letting other eat what they wished. Not chimps, not gorillas which are more closely related to humans, but rhesus monkeys which are quite a long way from us in evolutionary terms.

OK, nobody in their right mind would try to stop a gorilla eating just what it wanted to eat but there is another factor at work. Rhesus monkeys tend not to live very long whereas chimps can live to over 50 in captivity and gorillas even longer. That's a long time to run an experiment. So the first thing we see is the usual flaw in these scientific studies, they do not compare like with like.

Next we have to consider the comparable behaviour. Presented with an unlimited supply of food most humans will at some point exercise self control; we are intelligent enough to know that too much can be as bad as too little. Having evolved differently, rhesus monkeys are liable to gorge themselves - instinct tells them to grab what they can as it may be a long time until the next meal. We cannot compare the behaviour of monkeys to humans.

So really it would be wise to ask yourself do you want to enjoy your food, even indulge yourself a little at times, live to maybe 80 and hope to shuffle off this mortal coil without suffering too much for to long or starve yourself and risk osteoporosis and organ deterioration just to sit in your own urine in a care home, devoid of hope and dignity for an extra five worthless and painful years.

This latest scientific arse dribble from the government seems to fly in the face of their expensive public information campaign aimed at warning people of the danger of anorexia. "Anorexics cost the NHS shitloads on money and then the bastards die," was the message the patronising, unconvincing and badly acted films tried to et across. So why are the same governmeny, and the same department now promoting the benefits of anorexia by promoting it as a way to live longer. Only a bunch of complete curmudgeons would draw attention to that of course so we will not mention it. Earlier this week you might remember, another report was published in which yet another merry band of scientists who were preternaturally clever but have never experienced much contact with reality announced a breakthrough in controlling Alzheimers disease. Their technique had worked well on mice they proudly proclaimed.

Now how the fucking hell would anybody know if a mouse has Alzheimer's Disease?
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