Restricted Diet & Longer Lifespan
July 12, 2009 by Peggy Rowland
Filed under Women's Health
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




