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Article: MONKEYS FED LIGHT DIET GET FEWER SERIOUS DISEASES.(FRONT)
- Article from:
- The Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI)
- Article date:
- July 10, 2009
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Byline: DAVID WAHLBERG dwahlberg@madison.com 608-252-6125
The secret to a disease-free long life may be simple, a new study says: Eat a third less food.
But for most people that is no easy task, so scientists have turned to monkeys to learn what a severely restricted diet can do.
The answer, from a 20-year study at UW-Madison: Monkeys that eat 30 percent fewer calories than normal are three times less likely to develop or die from age-related diseases at any given time than other monkeys.
"This is the strongest evidence to date that caloric restriction can delay disease and improvesurvival," said Richard Weindruch, a professor of ...