Eat Less, Live to 140?

NY Times: "Advocates of the strategy, known as calorie restriction, or C.R., insist they're not dieting to get skinny but rather to have the last laugh. Eat smart enough, they say, and you can live to see great-great-grandchildren, not to mention postpone the onset of cancer, diabetes, heart disease and kidney failure. But, in a society obsessed with dieting, in which fads increasingly have the power to reshape the eating habits of millions — the Atkins diet, the South Beach diet — the Calorie Restriction lifestyle, with its abstinence ethos, will probably never win mass appeal. But the extremism of the diet does seem to fit the present mood, so much so that last month, the President's Council on Bioethics released a report specifically mentioning calorie restriction, and warning, 'The pursuit of an ageless body may prove finally to be a distraction and a deformation.'"