“If you put a lab mouse on a diet, cutting the animal’s caloric intake by 30 to 40 percent, it will live, on average, about 30 percent longer. The calorie restriction, as the intervention is technically called, can’t be so extreme that the animal is malnourished, but it should be aggressive enough to trigger some key biological changes.” This leads to a big question from the NYT (Gift Article): Could Eating Less Help You Live Longer? (Since it’s Passover, I can’t eat bread and quality carbs, so I’m doing a one week test to see if eating less helps me live longer. Maybe it will give me a few extra days, but they aren’t good days!)

+ The fact that I am abstaining from such foods makes me notice related stories more. Hence, I’ll share that tortilla sales are going through the roof.