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		btilly on May 27, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Breeding the Nutrition Out of Our Food ...restricting calories improves life span... I suspect that your knowledge on this topic has hit its expiry date. You are probably thinking of the various studies relating to rats and mice. However the correlation failed when we went to monkeys, and there is no reason to believe that it works in humans. See http://www.nature.com/news/calorie-restriction-falters-in-th... for verification of that.

codex on May 27, 2013 [–]

One primate study verified the effect and one did not; see http://www.davidstipp.com/on-calorie-restriction-monkeys-mag... for an interesting, if biased, analysis of the NIH study.

btilly on May 27, 2013 | [–]

Thank you for the additional information. I've updated my mental note from "disproven for primates" to "unclear".

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