CNN story: Can you Diet your Way to a Longer Life?

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banded krait - 08 Nov 2003 05:02 GMT

http://www.cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/11/07/calories.aging/index.html

I have been following the research on calorie restriction and aging since
learning about Dr. Roy Walford's pioneering research while watching the
episode of Scientific American Frontiers entitled, "Fat and Happy?" (See
Dr. Walford's Web site,
http://www.walford.com , for more information). The body of evidence from
studies on laboratory animals is compelling and growing all the time:
animals which are fed a highly nutritious diet which is lower in calories
than their "normal" diet live longer--sometimes a lot longer--and are
healthier as well.

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Ignoramus28586 - 08 Nov 2003 12:45 GMT

> http://www.cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/11/07/calories.aging/index.html
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> than their "normal" diet live longer--sometimes a lot longer--and are
> healthier as well.

Just beware that the evidence was compiled mostly on rodents -- rats
and mice -- which are quite different from humans. They are
experimenting on primates, but AFAIK, these experiments have not been
completed because primates live a lot longer. The ony human evidence
is long living people of Okinawa who tend to eat very little,
supposedly, and live a long life. We do not know whether there is
causation between their eating and lifespan. I also have great
abstract interest in CR and read Dr. Walford's _120 Year Diet_
book. The idea does seem to have some validity.

i
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