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November 22nd, 2006 Brittany Schaeffer | News Stories  Starving
to Live  Followers of calorie-restricted diets think their eat-
less approach will help them live longer. But is it worth living
without Granny's pumpkin pie?  Lunch with Brett Schneider is a
lesson in restraint. Most diners at Sweet Tomatoes, a serve-
yourself salad bar restaurant in Beaverton, pile shredded
cheddar cheese and thickly cut croutons on top of their lettuce.
Schneider instead loads two plates with mixed greens, spinach,
olives, raisins, cherry tomatoes and garbanzo beans. He bypasses
tureens filled with chunky blue cheese and ranch dressing,
instead ladling barely a tablespoon of Catalina dressing into a
small paper cup. Using a pair of tongs, Schneider carefully
tries to pluck pieces of egg white from a bowl of sliced egg
that is smeared with bright yellow yolks.  "This is the hard
part," he chuckles.  At age 33, Schneider is fastidious about
counting calories. But he's not on