The Benefits of Calorie Restriction for Longevity
Channel: NutritionFacts.org
Date: 2019-10-16

Though a bane for dieters, a slower metabolism may actually be a good thing.

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This is part of my video series on calorie restriction, intermittent fasting, and time-restricted eating. Next up is Potential Pitfalls of Calorie Restriction (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/potential-pitfalls-of-calorie-restriction). 

The rest coming out over the next few months are: 
• Benefits of Fasting for Weight Loss Put to the Test (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/benefits-of-fasting-for-weight-loss-put-to-the-test)
• Is Fasting Beneficial for Weight Loss? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/is-fasting-beneficial-for-weight-loss)
• Is Fasting for Weight Loss Safe? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/is-fasting-for-weight-loss-safe)
• Alternate-Day Intermittent Fasting Put to the Test (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/Alternate-Day-Intermittent-Fasting-Put-to-the-Test)
• Is Alternate-Day Intermittent Fasting Safe? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/is-alternate-day-intermittent-fasting-safe)
• Does Intermittent Fasting Increase Human Life Expectancy? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/does-intermittent-fasting-increase-human-life-expectancy)
• The 5:2 Diet and the Fasting-Mimicking Diet Put to the Test (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-5-2-diet-and-the-fasting-mimicking-diet-put-to-the-test)
• Time-Restricted Eating Put to the Test (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/time-restricted-eating-put-to-the-test)
• The Benefits of Early Time-Restricted Eating (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-benefits-of-early-time-restricted-eating)

If you don’t want to wait you can watch them all now on a digital download (https://drgreger.org/collections/downloads/products/fasting-weight-loss-digital). 

If you’re watching this the day it comes out, there are two days left to register for my 3rd and final fasting webinar, Fasting and Cancer, here (https://nutritionfacts.org/webinar/fasting-cancer/).

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-Michael Greger, MD FACLM

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