"Caleb" wrote:

This was the first article in Science News this week. Very interesting
article, and it may well be that regular dieting and weight loss is
not such a bad thing -- it might even be better in some ways than
maintaining a stable weight.

With a misrepresentation like your subject line, no wonder you
are called a troll and blown off by many. The permanent lifelong
calorie restriction shown cause longer lifespans in mice and many
other types of animals is absolutely NOT related to your history
of yoyo dieting. It *does* result in a stable weight for the simple
reason that it never ends until the subject animal dies.

You find a way to stay low calorie unendlingly for the rest of your
life without a pattern of yoyoing and you may well accure the same
benefits as the mice.

And just for fun, check out the level of caloric restriction imposed
on those mice. Is it a level that triggers rapid loss or slow loss?
Oh right. It's a level that triggers slow loss.

What I found interesting - If the mice are put on low calorie after
they are adults, it still seems to work.