Is
Calorie-Restriction is beneficial ? Don’t starve to
live-long: This is what the latest study says!!
A 2009 study from the University
of Wisconsin concluded that caloric restriction did extend
the life span of monkeys. Some scientists themselves began
severely restricting their own diet in order to reap such
benefits.
The National Institute on Aging study now has something else
to say. This study has been going on for about 25 years in
which some rhesus monkeys were kept hungry in a semi-starved,
lean condition so that the male ones weighed so low as if
a 6-foot-tall man would weigh, at just 120 to 133 pounds.
The idea was that if the monkeys by eating less could live
longer and healthier, then the same may become true with humans,
the close cousins of monkeys. The calorie-restriction did
not increase the survival age when started at older ages,
but only improved the metabolic profile of the primates. Young
monkeys on the calorie-restricted diet show a trend towards
a delay in the onset of age-related diseases, but they too
did not show an increase in their lifespan. So, the conclusion
was that the monkeys that were put on a diet of 30% lesser
calories did not live any longer than those that ate normal
calories. This is quite disappointing to the researchers of
age studies of course.
So, to all those figure-conscious, painfully-thin, emaciated-looking
ones, the message is “No need to starve to the
level of unconsciousness, but just eat healthy for a good
quality of life”
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Neglecting the diet ...
Image credit:churchhousecollection.blogspot.com
“He who takes medicine
and
neglects to diet
wastes the skill of his doctors."
- Chinese
Proverb
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