Some health and medical news
From oldest to newest:
"Why A Low-Calorie Diet Extends Lifespans: Critical Enzyme Pair Identified".
"Tests Begin on Drugs That May Slow Aging".
"Potent metastasis inhibitor identified".
"Doctors start to include vitamin D in fight against cancer".
"Colon cancer stopped in its tracks in Swiss study".
"Cancers Can Vanish Without Treatment, but How?"
"Cancer treatment enters 'very exciting' era".
"Scientists Find Gene Linked to Longer Life".
"Analyzing Cancer Cells to Choose Treatments".
I am very dubious about calorie restriction working on Humans. At least there is little evidence to suggest that it works the same way that it works on tiny animals with short lifespans.
It is not as though we do not have ample evidence in history of human beings going through famine, starvation, or periodic fasting. And those things have always been linked with shortened lifespans not lengthened.
Of course, I am not talking about obesity. But a slender healthy person who gets moderate exercise and who has good genetics will probably last till they are ninety with modern medicine.
I see little reason to believe that caloric restriction will improve that much if at all.
Posted by: kyle8 | December 30, 2009 at 07:32 AM