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Article: Secret to a longer life? Dieting For monkeys in study, at least, calorie restriction works
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- International Herald Tribune
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- November 1, 2006
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Michael Mason
International Herald Tribune
11-01-2006
How depressing, how utterly unjust, to be the one in your social circle who is aging least gracefully.In a laboratory at the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center, Matthias is learning about time's caprice the hard way. At 28, getting on for a rhesus monkey, Matthias is losing his hair, lugging a paunch and getting a face full of wrinkles.Yet in the cage next to his, gleefully hooting at strangers, one of Matthias's lab mates, Rudy, is the picture of monkey vitality, although he is slightly older. Thin and feisty, Rudy stops grooming his smooth coat just long enough to pirouette toward a proffered piece of fruit.Tempted with the ...