See dieting for some of the issues relating to weight loss, specifically yo-yo dieting and the risks of very low calorie diets and fasting ).
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But a carefully balanced, low calorie diet _ 30 percent to 50 percent fewer calories than the animals would normally eat _ prolongs not just life, but also youth.
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Researcher Gary Foster, Ph . D ., estimates that a very low calorie diet of fewer than 800 calories a day would reduce the metabolic rate by more than 10 percent.
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The best evidence for that theory is the extended lifespans of animals on super low calorie diets, but it seems plausible that's just a natural starvation response, and not an absence of damage.
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Your " This is one or the reasons for the'My low calorie diet did not reduce my weight'phenomena-their low calorie diet wasn't very tasty, so they added salt " statement is not science.
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Your " This is one or the reasons for the'My low calorie diet did not reduce my weight'phenomena-their low calorie diet wasn't very tasty, so they added salt " statement is not science.
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There have been studies in monkeys that show a low calorie diet does lower blood pressure and raise levels of " good " cholesterol, both signs of improved health that suggest a longer life.
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This is good news for today's health-crazed generation, which is caught in the hype of fat-free low calorie diets and complicated exercise regimens that give the promise of attaining the looks of television commercial models.
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Last week he and two postdoctoral students, Su-Ju Lin and Pierre-Antoine Defossez, reported that yeast cells kept on a low glucose, low calorie diet indeed live longer than normal, just as do rats and mice.
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Last week, after a nine-year pursuit, he reported a finding that may explain exactly how very low calorie diets _ the one intervention known to prolong life in experimental organisms _ may achieve that end.
