Researchers Note Differences Between People and Animals on Calorie...

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...

Dieters Who Believe in Calorie Restriction Prefer Going Hungry to Dying...

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...

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...

Starve Your Way to Health.(practitioners of calorie restriction movement...

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...

Genetic Regulator of Lifespan Identified; Gene That Extends Lifespan in...

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...

Symposium: Calorie restriction: Effects on body composition, insulin...

The Journal of Nutrition;  March 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......it is timely to present a symposium on the effects of calorie restriction and the potential for calorie restriction mimetic therapies. The present symposium "Calorie Restriction: Effects on Body Composition, Insulin Signaling and Aging...

Secret to a longer life? Dieting For monkeys in study, at least, calorie...

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...

Calorie restriction can extend life.(Weight Loss News)(BioMarker...

Chain Drug Review;  April 12, 2004 ;     93 words ......the University of California have linked calorie restriction to extended life spans, even in older...drug therapies that mimic the effects of calorie restriction may reduce the rate of aging, as well...

Moderate and severe calorie restriction in obesity. (Tips from Other...

American Family Physician;  February 15, 1994 ;     477 words ......effectiveness of moderate and severe calorie restriction. Moderate calorie restriction is defined as a diet of 1,200 calories...structured meal plans. The moderate calorie restriction was most successful when accompanied...

Examining the Effects of Strict Calorie Restriction

Talk of the Nation (NPR);  April 14, 2006 ;     700+ words ......Examining the Effects of Strict Calorie Restriction Host: IRA FLATOW Time: 2:00-3:00...Association, people in a six-month calorie-restriction diet, showed several improvements...about the findings of the study and calorie-restriction research is my guest Dr. Eric Ravussin...

Volunteers of America Issues Anniversary Challenge.

PR Newswire;  February 15, 2006 ;     681 words ...Volunteers of America Celebrates Its 110th Anniversary by Remembering Some of Its Extraordinary Volunteers and by Encouraging All Americans to Volunteer ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- On March 8, Volunteers of America, one of the largest non-profit providers...

Calorie restriction may curb skin cancer development

Xinhua News Agency;  April 14, 2008 ;     300 words ...Calorie restriction may curb skin cancer development...comprise 80 percent of all cancers. Calorie restriction and obesity directly affect...pathways such as Akt and mTOR. Calorie restriction or negative energy balance inhibits...

The case for eating less (and less ...): if mice and guppies can live...

O, The Oprah Magazine;  October 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......second-floor meeting room, where the annual conference of the Calorie Restriction Society (CR Society) is taking place. Perhaps 50 people...longevity, he started an Internet-based discussion group about calorie restriction. It became a little hobby for me, he says, and I tried...

Making a difference with volunteers in agricultural education programs

The Agricultural Education Magazine;  November 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ...Are you using volunteers in your Agricultural Education program? Have you thought about using volunteers to help you better serve your students...feel comfortable enlisting the aid of volunteers to enhance your agricultural education...

The withering volunteers: Bring them back alive

Nonprofit World;  September 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ...Does your organization really need volunteers? is there a way to assure their success? Do you wonder why you lose volunteers? When you don't want volunteers, your paid staff members readily cooperate; you get no volunteers. When you do want volunteers...