Would you reduce your calorie intake (while still maintaining a healthy diet) if it meant living a longer life, putting off diseases brought on by age?
If so, you may be interested in a recent study. Monkeys who ate less lived longer, healthier lives! That’s what researchers found at the end of a 20-year study with rhesus macaques.
Study results, published July 10 in the journal Science, indicate that consuming fewer calories, yet still maintaining a nutritious diet, leads to a longer and healthier life.
Researchers found that eating a reduced-calorie diet slows aging and significantly delays disorders that come on with age, …read more

There is an excellently written article in The Scientist: Caloric restriction slows immune aging.
The link between caloric restriction and longevity may be mediated by reduced susceptibility to disease, researchers report this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The scientists found that calorie-restricted older adult rhesus monkeys have at least 30% more naïve T cells than controls.
Two points I’d like to emphasize: Caloric restriction is not synonymous to starvation, as some headlines make it. Also, I have to agree with co-author Ilhem Messaoudi when he said towards the end of the article that increasing the lifespan …read more