Monday, September 17, 2012
"Want to live longer? Ditch the diet, cancel your gym session - just eat less"
It's has been written about many times over the years.
Unfortunately, proving the theory for sure would require human volunteers willing to restrict their caloric diet for an extended time.
That seems unlikely...
In the U.K. Daily Mail, Liz Thomas has more on this story:
"A researcher said: ‘If you reduce the diet of a rat by 40 per cent it will live for 20 per cent longer. So we would be talking 20 years of human life. 'This has shown on all sorts of organisms, even labradors.’ "
