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Monday, November 2, 2009

Calorie Restricted Diets Might Be Best Shot To Stop Illness And Slow Aging

By Kirsten Whittaker

Adults, and particularly young people, have yet one more rationale for reducing the calories you take in per day. If the monkeys from some terribly positive research appearing in Science are any guide, by following calorie prohibited diets you'll increase longevity, look younger and stay illness free.

Monkeys, as near as you can get to humans, fed a low cal diet have a longer life, have fewer indications of aging and less illness - conditions like heart illness, brain atrophy and even cancer - in the opinion of some new engaging research.

during the twenty-year study, the school of Wisconsin-Madison researchers uncovered half of the monkeys authorized to consume as they wished were still alive, while 80% of monkeys who ate the same foods but with a 3rd less calories have survived.

Other professionals think the long life-span of monkeys ( about 40 years ) means conclusions on longevity and what we eat can't yet be exprapolated and we need to wait a while to be sure.

This new thinking but long-term study started in 1989 with thirty rhesus macaques and was intended to take a look at the health consequences of a low calorie diet.

Earlier work from 1935 had shown that mice fed a low calorie diet lived up to 40% longer - the team wanted to see if the same may be true for apes.

In 1994 the research was expanded with the addition of 46 additional animals. All of the subjects were adults when they were enrolled, and of the first 76 in the study, 37% of the control monkeys lost their lives to age related causes - 13% of the animal's fed a restricted calorie diet died of similar results.

The prevalence of cancerous growths and heart problems in the monkeys who ate limited calorie diets was half that of the animals permitted to eat what they liked.

Actually, the oldest monkey still in the study is called Owen, who is twenty-nine, 2 years older than the average life span of 27 years in captivity.

One of the more outstanding findings of the study came in the case of diabetes ( or pre-diabetes ).

This illness was found in 42% of the control monkeys who ate as they wanted and none of the monkeys on the limited calorie diets.

And when it comes to mental health, the animals who ate a calorie-restricted diet were better off here too, according to Sterling Johnson, a brain specialist and another of the analysts.

The study found the areas of the brain that are tied to short-term memory and critical thinking are better saved in these subjects.

These same brain results have been noticed in other research on animals like fish, mice, worms, rodents and spiders. All of the mavens can say for sure now is that there are differences in places of the brain that might be related to what a subject ate.

A restricted number of these same kinds of research have been attempted on humans, and have resulted in fewer symptoms of cardiovascular aging according to experts.

More work needs to be done, and analysts who study getting older are divided on what stock to put in this work, but that does not imply there is not a ggod case for following calorie restricted diets to keep your body fit today and also as you age. - 17269

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