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by tvanzyl
4466 days ago
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> The only material things worth a damn are (a) 80/20 good health practices like regular moderate exercise and calorie restriction There is a study showing that caloric restriction increases life span in monkeys [1], but apparently there were issues with that study. According to a NYT article [2]: >Its authors had disregarded about half of the deaths among the monkeys they studied, saying they were not related to aging. If they had included all of the deaths, there was no extension of life span in the Wisconsin study. Another study on caloric restriction in monkeys showed no increase in average lifespans [3]. Also the NYT article mentions that other studies on rats have also shown no increase in lifespan using caloric restriction. So there's not really a great consensus out on the effectiveness of this yet. [1] http://www.sciencemag.org/content/325/5937/201.short [2] http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/30/science/low-calorie-diet-d... [3] http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v489/n7415/full/nature1... |
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