My reaction was more along the lines of "I hope that I can at least live as long as I'm genetically predisposed to doing. Do I need to restrict calories to do that? No, I don't? What fantastic news!"
Yea, that was a lot closer to my impression. "I can eat without being half starved with zero cost in years lived? Great!"
I think the cognitive dissonance angle is significant, too, because I don't want to be always thinking that I could be getting a different deal that maybe would be better. A bit like buying a house or car and then keeping an eye on the market such that you groan "Oh! If I had only waited I could have gotten a better deal!" It is hard to take the more disciplined yet relaxed approach of "What is done is done, no sense worrying about the alternatives." Especially when it is a choice you could make later, or one where social pressure encourages you to make one choice that isn't really optimal for you. I recall Caplan pointing out once that he is happier being a bit out of shape and not going to the gym than he would be going to the gym and being in better shape. Perfectly sensible tradeoff to make, but lots of people will pressure otherwise, while claiming all sorts of dubious reasons why you have made the wrong choice!
People also (rightly) hate hall-monitor HR-karen types who signal as though they'd take things from us for our own good if they could. Weak, confounded, and otherwise absurd studies celebrating veganism, starvation, castration, or other such things sound to normal folks like them swiveling the deck guns on us again.
All I can say is that after watching about 50 years of research on coffee going back and forth, I'm going to continue drinking my 10 cups or so a day until I die. Right now I'm 77. 2 weeks ago my PCP said he thought I am good for at least 10 more years. That's roughly 36,500 cups of coffee.
My reaction was more along the lines of "I hope that I can at least live as long as I'm genetically predisposed to doing. Do I need to restrict calories to do that? No, I don't? What fantastic news!"
Yea, that was a lot closer to my impression. "I can eat without being half starved with zero cost in years lived? Great!"
I think the cognitive dissonance angle is significant, too, because I don't want to be always thinking that I could be getting a different deal that maybe would be better. A bit like buying a house or car and then keeping an eye on the market such that you groan "Oh! If I had only waited I could have gotten a better deal!" It is hard to take the more disciplined yet relaxed approach of "What is done is done, no sense worrying about the alternatives." Especially when it is a choice you could make later, or one where social pressure encourages you to make one choice that isn't really optimal for you. I recall Caplan pointing out once that he is happier being a bit out of shape and not going to the gym than he would be going to the gym and being in better shape. Perfectly sensible tradeoff to make, but lots of people will pressure otherwise, while claiming all sorts of dubious reasons why you have made the wrong choice!
People also (rightly) hate hall-monitor HR-karen types who signal as though they'd take things from us for our own good if they could. Weak, confounded, and otherwise absurd studies celebrating veganism, starvation, castration, or other such things sound to normal folks like them swiveling the deck guns on us again.
All I can say is that after watching about 50 years of research on coffee going back and forth, I'm going to continue drinking my 10 cups or so a day until I die. Right now I'm 77. 2 weeks ago my PCP said he thought I am good for at least 10 more years. That's roughly 36,500 cups of coffee.