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Article: UW STUDY HINTS EATING LESS = LONGER LIFE.(Local/State)
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- The Capital Times
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- June 27, 2000
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Eating less food may help mice -- and possibly people -- live longer by reducing the activity of certain damaging genes in their brains, according to scientists at the University of Wisconsin.
The findings should help scientists better understand the tantalizing observation that rodents have longer life spans when they're given less to eat.
The study, performed by UW-Madison researchers Richard Weindruch, Tomas Prolla and Cheol-Koo Lee, was published today in the journal Nature Genetics.
The researchers used high-technology methods to study more than 6,000 genes in elderly mice kept on either normal or restricted diets.
``Although it ...