In another forum, a very friendly individual shared his "Breakfast
Details" - which he assured all that he really does enjoy; the
recipe is quite involved and he makes up a 10 day supply and eats it
almost every day. I believe that he really does enjoy it since Paul
eats a fairly regimented smoothie most days when we are in residence
either in Toronto or AZ. What I wanted to comment on here is the
hope that he (and others who do similarly) is not a "driven man" in
regards to this meal (or any other), who does not allow himself to
choose from the foods available at the homes of friends or at
restaurants when visiting or traveling. I say this because Michael
Rae, to whom this individual made reference and who himself posts
publicly in various locales on the Internet, did not partake
of the excellent food at the IABG10 Conference at Cambridge
University UK last month. Paul and I found no difficulty eating a
wide variety of excellent vegetables and fruit along with well
prepared protein sources while minimizing the empty calories; we
proudly state that we enjoyed a shared 1 or 2 delicious decadent
deserts. While Michael Rae publicly berated Donald Ingram during
the question period after his presentation on Monday afternoon (see
<http://www.gen.cam.ac.uk/iabg10/Program.htm>) for discounting and
even denying the ability of most people to practice CR, I contend
that Michael's own practice of bringing his cold box full of special
"goodies" to each meal in the large dining room was also a very strong deterrent
to others' consideration of CR practice. This I told
him quite emphatically on Tuesday morning across the table at
breakfast - which he brought again and insisted that he "loved it",
but was "not an obsessive like Dean Pomerleau". He just could not
get it through his head - despite my excellent logic - that his
methods were just as much a negative image for the practice of
calorie restriction by human beings as anything Donald Ingram or any
other current CR mimetic researcher might write. (Paul and I had a
long friendly conversation with another such reseacher, Steven Spindler, and his
wife who were quite interested in how we approach food and activity.)

The whole use of the term "calorie restriction - CR" is a problem -
how restricted? In what manner? It has come to the point that Paul
and I are seriously considering not using that term any longer to
describe how we eat because of the bad connotation that it brings
to the minds of many. Yes, we do restrict our daily calories to
approximately 1400 and 1800 calories for me and Paul, respectively.
But is that 70% for me of a typical daily 2000 (30% reduced)
equivalent to what is considered "calorie restriction" for
laboratory mice in studies for CR mimetics? I don't know;
Paul isn't ready to say either. I can say that I feel healthier
and my known parameters are better (except for that aberrant renal
calculi last January) than at any time in the past 20 years.
I feel as energetic mentally and physically as I did in
the last 2 sememsters in 1983 as I neared completion of my BSME
at University of Arizona in December of that year. (The summer that year, I
restarted purposeful physical activity by swimming and worked up to a mile each
day of classes, which I continued by regular aerobics classes once I started
with Motorola in January 1984 since no swimming facilities existed at the health
club my then-husband and I joined.)

So Paul and I will decide whether to revamp at least our personal
diet regimen page to make it *more* clear that we do not
practice "Calorie Restriction", but rather simply restrict our
calories along the manner of that shown on that page. And when
people ask "what diet do you follow", we can only say "look at our
website - <http://morelife.org/personal/health/> and click on "Our Ways with
Food" to see what modifications we have made to the standard No. American
diet (SAD). **Kitty