Does Severe Calorie Restriction Help You Life Longer? Probably Not
According to a 25-year study using rhesus monkeys, a lifetime on a very-low calorie diet did not help them live any longer, researchers from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge reported in the journal Nature. Rhesus monkeys are genetically relatively similar to humans. They were fed on a diet consisting of 30% fewer calories than the control group were for a quarter of a century…
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Does Severe Calorie Restriction Help You Life Longer? Probably Not
August 29, 2012 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: 25-year-study, diet-consisting, fewer-calories, louisiana-state, not-help, nutrition / diet, oncalldietitian.com, using-rhesus
