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Low-calorie longevity: the anti-aging diet.
Want to live longer? How does 120 or more sound? That's realistic, say many anti-aging researchers. But at present, you'd have to switch to what longevity researchers call a "calorie-restricted" diet.
It sounds like dieting, but it isn't. Dieting has the short-term goal of weight loss. But caloric restriction--or CR--represents a lifelong approach to food consumption.
CR, however, doesn't mean starvation. In fact, the objective is to consume fewer calories without sacrificing nutrition.
Through good food choices and supplements, a CR diet is fortified generously with vitamins, minerals and antioxidants to provide the same nutrients as an ...
- Calorie restriction reduces age-related brain cell death.
- Newspaper article from: Pain & Central Nervous System Week January 20, 2003 700+ words
...decades of research in several species showing calorie restriction not only boosted life span and general health but also increased mental...aging neurons. Understanding the reasons calorie restriction increases certain neuroprotective proteins...
- Dieters Who Believe in Calorie Restriction Prefer Going Hungry to Dying Early.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News October 27, 2003 700+ words
...showing that "calorie restriction," or CR...third increases life span by about 30...from animals, calorie restriction has not been...A study of life span would last...human trial of calorie restriction. Over three...
- Starve Your Way to Health.(practitioners of calorie restriction movement hope...
- Magazine article from: Newsweek International Adler, Jerry Underwood, Anne January 26, 2004 700+ words
...controversial calorie-restriction movement...the human life span, the theoretical...From the calorie- restriction point of view...The case for calorie restriction (CR) rests...nutrition, and life span goes up by...
- Study on monkeys suggests calorie restriction extends life But other biologists...
- Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune Nicholas Wade The New York Times July 11, 2009 700+ words
...11-2009 Study on monkeys suggests calorie restriction extends life But other biologists cast...old age and considerably extend their life span by following a special diet. Known...dieting monkeys were expected to enjoy a life span extension of 10 percent to 20 percent...
- The case for eating less (and less ...): if mice and guppies can live...
- Magazine article from: O, The Oprah Magazine Ball, Aimee Lee October 1, 2003 700+ words
...the annual conference of the Calorie Restriction Society (CR Society) is taking...based discussion group about calorie restriction. "It became a little hobby...Anti-Aging Plan and Maximum Life Span. A professor of pathology...
- Fasting 'extends reproductive life span'.
- News wire article from: Asian News International August 28, 2009 700+ words
...dietary restriction and fasting. While it has been hypothesized that this protein may interface with calorie restriction to extend life span, until now its role in protecting and extending reproductive longevity in the face of starvation had...
- Turning Back the Clock: Fasting Prolongs Reproductive Life Span.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire September 4, 2009 700+ words
...dietary restriction and fasting. While it has been hypothesized that this protein may interface with calorie restriction to extend life span, until now its role in protecting and extending reproductive longevity in the face of starvation had...
- Health: Reduce your calories to lengthen your life-span; If you want to live...
- Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England) May 1, 2004 700+ words
...eating less can extend life-span. One of the most impressive...stringent and consistent calorie restriction can increase the animals' life-span by about 30 per cent...dramatic. They show calorie restriction produces health effects...
