Article: Cut your calories to look younger, live longer: Study

Article: MIT helps unlock life-extending secrets of calorie restriction.
Drug Week;  January 30, 2004 ;     464 words ......activates an anti-aging gene in yeast. Calorie restriction extends lifespan in a wide spectrum...Guarente discovered in 2000 that calorie restriction activates the silenced information...probes how Sir2 is activated by calorie restriction. The authors reported that a coenzyme...

Article: Scientists identify compounds that mimic calorie restriction.
Drug Week;  September 3, 2004 ;     537 words ......many of the beneficial effects of calorie restriction, resulting in the prevention of...of Public Health, explained that calorie restriction has intrigued scientists for decades...every species studied. In mammals, calorie restriction suppresses many diseases associated...

Article: Researchers note differences between people and animals on calorie restriction.(Report)
NewsRx Health;  October 12, 2008 ;     700+ words ...Calorie restriction, a diet that is low in calories...findings, some people have adopted calorie restriction in the hope that they can lengthen...desired effect unless people on calorie restriction also pay attention to their...

Article: Researchers Note Differences Between People and Animals on Calorie Restriction
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  September 24, 2008 ;     700+ words ......issued the following news release: Calorie restriction, a diet that is low in calories...findings, some people have adopted calorie restriction in the hope that they can lengthen...desired effect unless people on calorie restriction also pay attention to their protein...

Article: Dieters Who Believe in Calorie Restriction Prefer Going Hungry to Dying Early.
Chicago Tribune (Chicago, Illinois) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News);  October 27, 2003 ;     685 words ......list of animal studies showing that calorie restriction, or CR, as it is called, can significantly...Those on the diet concede that calorie restriction has side effects, including hunger...problems. No one knows for sure how calorie restriction works. Most researchers think that...

Article: Calorie restriction may not increase human lifespan as it does in rodents
The Hindustan Times;  September 25, 2008 ;     465 words ......in St. Louis have revealed that calorie restriction, a diet that is low in calories...discrepancy between humans and animals on calorie restriction. In the majority of the animal models...looked at IGF-1 in humans doing calorie restriction," said first author Luigi Fontana...

Article: Starve Your Way to Health.(practitioners of calorie restriction movement hope to slow aging process)(California based Calorie Restriction Society)
Newsweek International;  January 26, 2004 ;     700+ words ......pioneer in the tiny, controversial calorie-restriction movement, which aims to prolong...to cut back on exercise. From the calorie- restriction point of view, food per se is a...president of the California-based Calorie Restriction Society, might be on to something...

Article: Calorie restriction leads to some brain benefits but not others in mice.
Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week;  November 20, 2004 ;     700+ words ......NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Severe calorie restriction prevents certain aging-related changes...underlying both normal aging and calorie restriction benefits, said principal investigator...numerous studies have shown severe calorie restriction helps animals live longer and resist...

Article: Genetic Regulator of Lifespan Identified; Gene That Extends Lifespan in Yeast Points to Paradigm Shift in Longevity Research; May Explain Life Extension via Calorie Restriction.
Ascribe Higher Education News Service;  May 7, 2003 ;     700+ words ......extension that yeast experience under calorie restriction. A yeast strain with five copies...that the lifespan extension from calorie restriction is the result of an active cellular...researchers have known that severe calorie restriction extends the lives of many organisms...

Article: Pulmonary effects of calorie restriction characterized.
Respiratory Therapeutics Week;  September 27, 2004 ;     409 words ......net) -- The effects of calorie restriction on alveolar loss and...have been clarified. Calorie restriction, followed by ad libitum...within 72 h of onset of calorie restriction (2/3 decreased daily...

Article: Secret to a longer life? Dieting For monkeys in study, at least, calorie restriction works
International Herald Tribune;  November 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......vital lives.This approach, called calorie restriction, involves eating about 30 percent...from direct genetic manipulation, calorie restriction is the only strategy known to extend...humans went so far as to claim that calorie restriction may be more effective than exercise...

Article: Calorie restriction does not appear to induce bone loss in overweight adults.
NewsRx Health;  October 12, 2008 ;     514 words ......one of the JAMA/Archives journals. Calorie restriction is the only intervention known to...bone loss in obese individuals. Calorie restriction, therefore, could also lead to bone...control group, 10.4 percent in the calorie restriction group, 10 percent in the calorie...

Article: The longevity diet: everyone knows that reducing calories can help you lose weight; members of the Calorie Restriction Society say it helps you live longer.(Healthy Appetites)(www.calorierestriction.org)
Natural Health;  March 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......approximately 1,700 members of the Calorie Restriction (CR) Society (www.calorierestriction...defined by the society's members, calorie restriction means you consume a specific, limited...St. Louis and top researcher on calorie restriction. While this is less than the average...

Article: The fast supper: is a life lived on the edge of starvation worth living? Our hungry reporter gives the ultra-extreme Calorie Restriction Diet a two-month taste test.
New York;  October 30, 2006 ;     700+ words ......They are master practitioners of Calorie Restriction, a diet whose central, radical premise...Roy Walford, had been studying the Calorie Restriction phenomenon for decades and convinced...they'd gone in, and the case for Calorie Restriction in humans was no longer purely ...