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Article: The calorie restriction society research project.(REPORT)(Report)
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- Life Extension
- Article date:
- July 1, 2007
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The life-extending and disease-preventing benefits of calorie restriction (CR) are often used as the gold standard for animal research on aging. In such studies, calorie-restricted animals are compared to controls to see if an intervention like a drug or supplement has a life-extending effect or other disease-preventing benefit similar to CR.
This made us wonder if such a standard could be established in humans. The problem, of course, is that unlike favorite research animals like mice, flies, or worms, humans have a long life span, so waiting a lifetime to see if calorie restriction really works is not practical. People who want ...