If you are looking to extend your life expectancy then your most effective option is still to eat 20 percent fewer calories than you really need for the rest of your life. If you go for lifelong starvation you'll live a few score percent longer than normal. Doesn't sound like much fun though. But there may be an alternative that works just as well.
You’ve likely heard the line “eat less and exercise more to lose weight”. But is it true? We see it as a vastly oversimplified response to an incredibly complex issue.
In all fairness to the health professionals who advocate this approach to weight loss, it is the easiest and quickest way to provide a response to the question of how to lose weight. And therein lies the problem. Not everyone understands the basic nutritional and physiological concepts that support this recommendation.
