July 11, 2009

Fewer calories = longer life? A new primate study says, yes

Scientific American for July 9, 2009 reported on the effect on aging of eating fewer calories.

A 20-year-long rhesus monkey study, released today in Science, found that monkeys that consumed 30 percent less calories than average peers were one third as likely to get a age-related disease and were likely to live longer.
A ScienceNOW article is here.
A NewsDaily article is here
A Discover Blogs article is here.

2 comments:

Joseph Smidt said...

Great, a new LDS science blog to follow!

I actually get a subscription to science from the physics department here at UC Irvine. Great magazine, considered one of the top 2-3 in all of science.

Allen said...

I read Discover It's written for lay people like me and gives easy to read articles on a variety of topics.