Calorie Restriction & Longevity

 Calorie restriction and longevity.  This is the thought that just found its way into my head.  Where I pull these things up from and why, I don’t really know.  This was my thought.  If a person decided from a point in their young adulthood that they would like to practice calorie restriction in order to increase their life longevity and in the end, it made a difference of just five years, would it be worth it?  Would it be worth it to deny oneself the pleasure of eating good & satisfying food without any serious restriction just to live an extra five years?  Or would it make more sense to forgo the extra five years, but spend one’s life enjoying satisfying food in a satisfying quantity?  I guess that’s a question that only each individual person could answer.  I personally would choose the latter.

Life holds lots of challenges and stresses, so why on earth would a person want to sacrifice one of the major things that makes life good?  This is my personal opinion anyway.