Eating less could help you live to 100. - Can't say I'm convinced...

Eating less could help you live to 100

See what you think when you've read the article. - I'm not convinced. There's no mention of salt. - Minimising salt/sodium intake, and avoiding unnecessary medications that too often cause sodium retention, is the way to minimise risk of obesity, hypertension, type 2 diabetes, heart attack, heart disease, stroke, arthritis, enlargement of the heart, liver damage, kidney impairment, most cancers, cholesterol problems, etc. so that your old age is as healthy as possible and your life is long.

Eating less would certainly not make obese people live longer. Calorie reduction and increasing exercise are usually counter-productive. - See the article in the British Medical Journal of November 2003 BMJ article for actual research on what happens when this advice is followed! - Over 800 obese adults were put on energy deficit diets, given diet sheets and plenty of instruction and help from trained staff, and apparently, visited fortnightly for a year, at the end of which they had GAINED weight! This mirrors the real experience of obese people, viz. - dieting makes you fat.

And in the small proportion of obese people who succeed in losing weight by eating less, it is usually very harmful and greatly reduces life expectancy. - See Guardian article for a report in The Guardian of Monday, June 27th 2005. It is about a huge research study of nearly 3000 people over a period of 18 years. The study found that overweight people who diet to reach a healthier weight are more likely to die young than those who remain fat. It also found that dieting causes physiological damage that in the long term can outweigh the benefits of the weight loss.

This http://jech.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/54/9/697 is an academic article about life expectancy and health improvement by reducing the daily intake of salt (sodium chloride) by 6g per person in the Norwegian population. You could find many other such articles by searching on the internet.