{"id":863,"date":"2004-03-23T19:00:07","date_gmt":"2004-03-23T19:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=863"},"modified":"2011-05-01T18:33:13","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T23:33:13","slug":"nutrition-living-longer-by-eating-less-works-at-any-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=863","title":{"rendered":"nutrition: living longer by eating less works at any age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It&#8217;s been known for decades that an animal&#8217;s  lifespan could be extended by severely reducing its calorie intake,  while avoiding malnourishment. Calorie restriction slows the rate of  aging, as well as the development of age-related diseases. (A few hardy,  if hungry, souls are testing calorie restriction on themselves to see  if this holds true for humans.) But it was also thought that a  restricted diet had to be started early in an animal&#8217;s life to work  well. Now a study on older mice in this week&#8217;s <em>Proceedings of the  National Academy of Sciences Early Edition<\/em> suggests otherwise. Stephen  Spindler of the University of California at Riverside and colleagues  started late middle-aged mice on a restricted diet and found the same  benefits: the mice lived almost six months longer and the onset and  progression of cancers were slowed. Genetic analysis revealed that the  older calorie-restricted mice had patterns of genetic activity similar  to those of mice on the diet from their youth. The researchers suggest  that drugs that could mimic the  same patterns of genetic activity might  give the same beneficial effects.<\/span><\/p>\n<h6><em>This news brief appeared in the Discoveries column of the <\/em>Boston Globe&#8217;s<em> Health\/Science section on 3\/23\/2004.<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been known for decades that an animal&#8217;s lifespan could be extended by severely reducing its calorie intake, while avoiding malnourishment. Calorie restriction slows the rate of aging, as well as the development of age-related diseases. (A few hardy, if &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=863\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boston-globe-3","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=863"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1068,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863\/revisions\/1068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}