THURSDAY, July 9 ( HealthDay News) — A new study that found that a lower¡Mcalorie diet slowed the aging process in monkeys could be the best proof yet that restricted diets might do the same for humans.
“The big question in aging research is, ‘Will caloric restriction in species closely related to humans slow aging£¿’” said Richard Weindruch, senior author of a paper appearing in the July 10 issue of Science.This is the first clear demonstration that, in a primate species, we’ re inducing a slowdown of the aging process — showing increased survival, resistance to disease, less brain atrophy and less muscle