I guess the point the author was trying to make is that extreme calorie restriction with a nutrient poor diet is bad for you, but I would be hard pressed to fin

I guess the point the author was trying to make is that extreme calorie restriction with a nutrient poor diet is bad for you, but I would be hard pressed to find anyone who disagrees. I guess he was trying to extrapolate from that study somehow but the article goes off the rails and drops a bunch of factoids about calorie restriction and diet and then closes by mentioning a study of dubious quality.