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SallyAnne pls take note.

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    SallyAnne pls take note.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8141082.stm

    Cutting calories may delay the ageing process and reduce the risk of disease, a long-term study of monkeys suggests.

    The benefits of calorie restriction are well documented in animals, but now the results have been replicated in a close relative of man over a lengthy period.

    Over 20 years, monkeys whose diets were not restricted were nearly three times more likely to have died than those whose calories were counted.

    Writing in Science, the US researchers hailed the "major effect" of the diet.

    It involved reducing calorie intake by 30% while maintaining nutrition and appeared to impact upon many forms of age-related disease seen in monkeys, including cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and brain atrophy.



    Guess I'll be having salad for lunch.

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      #3
      Don't be greedy and you will look better and live longer.

      These scientists always amazing us with their 20 yr research.

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        #4
        Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post
        http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8141082.stm

        Cutting calories may delay the ageing process and reduce the risk of disease, a long-term study of monkeys suggests.

        The benefits of calorie restriction are well documented in animals, but now the results have been replicated in a close relative of man over a lengthy period.

        Over 20 years, monkeys whose diets were not restricted were nearly three times more likely to have died than those whose calories were counted.

        Writing in Science, the US researchers hailed the "major effect" of the diet.

        It involved reducing calorie intake by 30% while maintaining nutrition and appeared to impact upon many forms of age-related disease seen in monkeys, including cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and brain atrophy.



        Guess I'll be having salad for lunch.
        Could you get away with just eating those A-Z vitamin tablets and high protein drinks then?? Would save a lot of cooking etc.

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          #5
          SA likes high protein fluids, apparently

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            #6
            Originally posted by Shimano105 View Post
            SA likes high protein fluids, apparently
            I've heard that.

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              #7
              If this is true, how come I am twice as old as these monkeys but still have my youthful good looks? I look much better than both of those monkeys, even the one on the diet



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                #8
                This research isn't new, this article was around in 2007.

                As I seem to remember the calorie controlled groups were walking a fine line between longevity and anorexia...
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                  #9
                  What is a calorie: a unit of heat equal to the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one kilogram of water by one degree at one atmosphere pressure!!!

                  Nothing to do with food AFAIK

                  I don't believe in calories, I believe in quality over quantity, cut the processed food, stick to natural no additives food as out ancestors had, and your body will flourish.

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by zamzummim View Post

                    I don't believe in calories, I believe in quality over quantity, cut the processed food, stick to natural no additives food as out ancestors had, and your body will flourish.
                    Did our ancestors eat extra large donner kebabs for tea?

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