I agree with you but I don't really see what the alternative is. If you openly go around stating that you regret having children, what are people supposed to say? It's better to keep those thoughts to yourself because there, quite frankly, is nothing helpful anyone could say even if they wanted to. Not to mention that it would be unfair to the kids if they got the feeling that you regret having them.
Unfortunately, my soul brought me into that bucket :-(
I can speak about it with other (men) friends without children, and to some women without children. But if you ever say that you didnt want children when others with children are around, they see you as an alien.
Esp it gets hard if you are single (what happenend to me now) and you meet new women and tell them that the only reason for the last breakup was that I couldnt bear the stress with out children.
I knew from the beginning of my life on, that it will totally crush me if this happens - coming from a "not supportive family" makes it really hard to >actually want children<, esp. if the same stories now repeat :-(
A long term calorie restriction that is so great has a few beneficial effects, i.e. a lower risk of cancer and a good probability of a longer life, but only if you live in very sheltered conditions, e.g. when being a lab rat or mouse or when having servants who would do everything for you.
However there are significant undesirable effects, caused by a reduced muscular mass and adipose tissue. You would become one of the weak and frail old people, who easily fall and break some limb. The resistance to any infectious diseases is also likely to be very weak.
Unfortunately, many choices that you could do about your lifestyle have both advantages and disadvantages, so it may be difficult or impossible to find an optimum. Few decisions are simple, like the decision that smoking is bad.
Someone with a sedentary lifestyle would need to eat around 1200 to 1300 kcal daily to achieve such a calorie restriction, e.g. 2 meals per day of around 600 kcal each. Of this amount of calories per day, around 400 kcal should come from protein, around 350 kcal from fat and around 450 to 550 kcal from starch. It is feasible, but it may be difficult to not be hungry between meals. Sweets would have to be mostly excluded, as they would prevent satiety and they would cause hunger soon after a meal. Protein would have to be provided mostly by pure sources, e.g. chicken/turkey breast, gelatin or protein powders, to avoid extra calories.
Most people severely underestimate their ability to become accustomed to eating much less than they currently eat, but even so I am doubtful that it is possible to enjoy eating so little as required by a lifelong 30% calorie restriction.
Those folks were disdainful of "one-mouse experiments" but Roy was vital and productive for a long time and passed at 79 from ALS which is one of the worse ways you can go and used a lot of weed
I can say that when I was lowballing my calories I was often uncomfortable, particularly in the cold. If I could keep the temperature constant it might not be so hard but in an old farmhouse in NY it's pretty hard even if you are strategic about long underwear and other warm programming. But yeah, the average American could use to eat a bit less and so I could I.
It's really cool seeing how people connected with strangers from all over the place before the Internet. Also makes me wonder how many interesting uses of real estate like Home and Garden there are today in populated areas (34th st in Manhattan, etc.).
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