Filed under: Life in general
There’s an article in today’s New York Times, One for the Ages: A Prescription that May Extend Life, bringing to the foreground evolving animal research suggesting that calorie restricted diets may prolong life. Already, there are thousands of Americans participating in such diets, determined to delay the inevitable as long as they can. So what if you have to eat Metamucil muffins for breakfast, eat iceberg lettuce for lunch, skip dinner and have no energy to have sex– the point is, you get to outlive everyone. And when you are finally on your deathbed, you may have a great-great-great-grandchild around to poke at your flab, but your best friends, your wife, your husband, your brothers and sisters have all been long gone leaving you to deal with this snot-nosed kid all alone.
