Reduced Diet Thwarts Aging, Disease In Monkeys
Thursday, July 9, 2009 - 17:14
in Health & Medicine
The bottom-line message from a decades-long study of monkeys on a restricted diet is simple: Consuming fewer calories leads to a longer, healthier life. Researchers report that a nutritious but reduced-calorie diet blunts aging and significantly delays the onset of such age-related disorders as cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and brain atrophy.