Tom Venuto of BurnTheFat.com sent me this excellent article on life extension and I found it a very interesting read. Life Extension is a hot topic at the moment and is directly related to a healthy body building lifestyle, so I’ve decided to create a new category on the site for articles of this nature. If you don’t know about Tom’s book then you can read my Burn the Fat Feed the Muscle Review.

Here is the article…

By Tom Venuto
www.BurnTheFat.com

On a recent episode of the Oprah show, one of the guests was a 51 year old man with the heart of a 20 year old. He’s been following a calorie restriction plan and they said he might be one of the first people to reach 120 years old by following this plan. There have been stories both in the lay press and scientific press about calorie restriction for years and it has been a frequent talk show topic on other many other TV shows. However, before you cut your calories in half in hopes of adding another decade onto your life, you’d better get the other half of the story they didn’t talk about on Oprah.

I’ve seen a lot of strange things in the health field, and although calorie restriction (CR) is the subject of serious and legitimate scientific study, I consider CR to be one of those strange things. Of course, that’s because I choose a different lifestyle – the muscle-friendly Burn The fat, Feed The Muscle lifestyle – but there’s more than one reason why I’m not a CR advocate: Read the rest of this entry