Diet
U.S. scientists, who already knew that cutting calories prolonged the life of rodents and worms, first began to investigate the effect on rhesus monkeys in 1989. Their findings are published in the journal Science today.
The dieting animals didn’t just live longer, they had less than half the cancer and heart disease of those allowed to splurge, Richard Weindruch of the University of Wisconsin- Madison and his colleagues found. None of the lean monkeys developed diabetes and the parts of their brains devoted to mental and motor functions were better preserved.
“We observed that caloric restriction reduced the risk of developing an age-related disease by a factor of three and increased survival,” Weindruch said in a statement.
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