Everyone knows someone who is on a perpetual diet and now new research suggests these folks who practice daily calorie reduction may be on a health track that prolongs their lives. At least that's what a study of rhesus monkeys on a restricted diet for decades has shown, according to a report in the Los Angeles Times. In a study funded by the National Institutes of Health and published in a recent issue of the journal Science, results from primates showed that calorie restriction had the same benefits observed in mice, rats worms,and spiders. The researchers suggest that it might have the same effects in humans. The monkeys' risk of dying from cancer, heart disease and diabetes fell by more than two-thirds, according to the study.
"Mild caloric restriction is beneficial to everybody," Dr. Luigi Fontana, a medical professor at Washington University in St. Louis told the L.A. Times. Fontana examined people who have been practicing caloric restriction for an average of 6 1/2 years and said their heart function was equivalent to those of people 16 years younger. That's something to think about...breaking the bad habit of eating too much, too often, is the challenge facing most of us.
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