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Article: Fewer Calories Lengthen Life For Monkeys
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- May 1, 1996
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Less food may mean more life.
That is the conclusion of a study published yesterday showing
that aging slows down in monkeys who eat a well-balanced diet with
the calorie content reduced by 30 percent.
The animals on a calorie light diet had a lower body
temperature, a slower metabolism and fewer biochemical indications
of aging, said George Roth, a scientist at the gerontology research
center of the National Institute on Aging, part of the National
Institutes of Health.
Scientists "have known for 70 years that if you feed
laboratory mice less food, they age slower, they live longer and
they get diseases less frequently," he said. "We find that monkeys
respond in the same way as ...