What would you say about a diet that brings the benefits of fasting but allows you to eat, albeit only low-calorie fare? Sounds great, doesn’t it? Well, there is one. Called the fasting-mimicking diet (FMD), it’s a five-day meal plan, repeated at regular intervals, that’s formulated to simulate the body’s fasting state. It was developed at the University of Southern California’s Longevity Institute under the direction of Italian gerontologist Valter Longo. We asked two experts for their take on it. “While on the fasting-mimicking diet, you consume about 1,000 calories daily for five days,” or …