I encourage you to read my immigration restrictions as apartheid archives.

Congratulations on your good health, may it continue for a long time.

Engergy requirements vary tremendously across individuals, but for an average western male, 2000 calories is moderately restricted. I believe moe extreme males on CR, like these are at about 1800 and I’ve seen estimates of around 2800-300 for the average U.S. male. Females consume about 50 percent less all around.

Regarding a couple things from your followup post:

So they destroy and emaciate their bodies for 30-40 years so that they may have the chance to live a few years longer with arthritis, wearing diapers, and everything else that extreme old age brings.

Not at all. Whether CR extends maximum lifespan in humans is uncertain, but it almost certainly delays risk of disease and disability associated with aging. Even if CR people don’t live longer I expect them to live longer in good health.

My view is that you take as much of the wheel as you can and steer things in the right direction. Somewhere, there’s a really happy medium between obese and emaciated.

Some are willing to steer harder than others.

Unfortunately, Linksvayer did not link to the “pro-apartheid” article he claims are standard fare for LewRockwell.com. Thus we assume he’s slinging rhetoric and making false charges. But he also hates Hoppe.

Note the lack of a capital A. I’m referring to Hoppe and others’ braindead arguments for government control of immigration, which I see as the moral equivalent of capital-A South African Apartheid.

Sean and Mr. Linksvayer - you people are just plain nuts. God help that we criticize starvation and emaciation. Try education as opposed to “negativity” as the reason for the season. Dare I shred Mr. Sean’s glorious theory of fast food glory?

At 5′ 3″ and 115 lbs., I am a natural, lightweight bodybuilder. I don’t eat fast food, and surely, rarely do I eat ribs. What I do, however, is eat 5-7 times per day, and I eat food that most people consider non-glorious. I eat to be strong and healthy and energetic - my number one goal in life. I deadlift 255 lbs and squat about the same. I do 500+ lbs on the 45-degree leg press. I wear pants in the size 2-3 range. But I am not emaciated - I am muscular and lean. I have also spent 20 years as a cyclist (road cycling and mountain biking), and I can sprint a 100, 200, or 400 faster than I did in high school 25 years ago. People take me for 10-12 years younger than I am. I enjoy this.

Thus I do not run out for ribs and big macs, as you would hope. This is why I have a leg to stand on in my criticism of the lifestyle that you promote. I am also a freelance writer who writes for clients in the health, food, and nutrition industry. So I have done my research and I know my stuff.

You emaciated nutballs do not have a clue. If….if some definitive voice were to come down and tell me that I would - without a doubt - live 5-10 years longer if I looked like you, Mike, and led my life like you, I’d say “no deal.” I deem that to be healthy and strong is indeed the happiest thing going. I’d be afraid to shake your hand because I’d break your arm in 3 spots. You are not a man who eats 2,000+ calories/day. And you are not promoting a longer, healthier life via severe calorie restriction. (2,000 calories is not “restriction,” by the way.)

The stupid crap on the blogosphere is just that. I got a ton of it after our NY Mag article. I think it shows how emotionally invested people are in their rationalizations for inability to control food intake.

We love you! Thanks for doing so much to get the word out. Those who are genuinely interested are finding their way to more information. Those who aren’t… well, they’ll be dead sooner rather than later.

love, april

After reading the negative comments, they reminded me of the kind of stereotypical comments that vegetarians often get. I am a vegetarian (not a vegan). I am still not sure why eating “uncommon” meals provokes so much negative reactions.

What was most intrriguing to me about your example meal was the breakfast natto with garlic. I am a Japanese male and I know that not all Japanese like natto, perhaps because of the smell and the consistency. When I was a kid, I used to run away from the dinning table if any of my family members decide to eat natto (now I like it though). I haven’t personally met any American who likes natto. I have never seen any Japanese eating natto with garlic; they usually eat it with sliced scallions, but hey, that looks good. I’ll try it with garlic sometime.

I suspect most of the negative feelings flying around are generated through projection. I read through the responses to the bit on ‘Reason’ and the one that stood out for me was the guy who looked at your photo and saw a smug expression: projection, I thought. What is a libertarian if not smug, “I can fend for myself, thank you very much.”

It seemed that most of those angered by the story were being very defensive, asserting there intention to run right out and get them some burgers or ribs or whatever else. This is common in my experience (i’m a lazy vegan myself.) People think that choices I make for myself are an assault on their choices (or lack there of.) While yes I do care what you do, no i do not intend to make you do otherwise (or even call you names [to your face.])

So, it’s quite clear that you are secure in your choices and convictions and do not need my (a complete stranger’s) endorsement. Take care.