Alacrity

Max linked to an article on that low-calorie, "life-extending" diet. I have several issues with this diet, and as I couldn't vent entirely in his comment section, I'm elaborating here:

- We have enough of an overpopulation problem without everyone living twice as long.

- Other things can kill you. Being hit by a car after 50 years of starving yourself to live longer would suck

- You'd have to save a heck of a lot of retirement money

- The extra years come at the end, when you're way old. It's not like you get 70 extra years of being a 20-something. As the doctor says, it can "potentially add decades at the far end of the life span."

- All of your friends and family have to do it too, or you'll be like the Frozen Man in James Taylor's song--

"I thought it would be nice just to visit my grave
See what kind of tombstone I might have
I saw my wife and my daughter and it seemed so strange
Both of them dead and gone from extreme old age "