Hi People,
For some reason, unbeknown to me, most people that do not have Uni degrees in science, or a discipline that requires scientific evaluation, can not tell the difference between a manufacturer's lies and scientifically tested principles.
This forum proves it over and over again, one lady who holds a responsible position as a LA health writer believed some-one lived to more than 250 years, unbelievable!!!!!.
The principles that I am about to share with you have been tested many times with different cohorts (species) and the principle has always held in the test. It will work for you, it has in every other case, you will not be unique on this planet, so don't try to complicate it, just do it and watch the fantastic results. Not only more energy but better health in almost every measurement will be achieved.
When this study group finally die in 10 to 15 years we will have proof of life extension as well as all of the other benefits such as much less cancer, heart disease, diabetes, even arthritis, so why wait, if you try this and fail readjust what you are doing because it does work, don't blame the system, blame yourself for not doing it right.
Monkeys turn back time on a diet
Karen Kaplan
July 16, 2009
FOR developed countries, in which so many people are overweight or obese, scientists have discouraging news: even those who maintain a healthy weight probably should be eating less.
Evidence has been mounting that the practice of caloric restriction - essentially, going on a permanent diet - greatly reduces the risk of age-related diseases and even postpones death.
It had been shown to extend the lives of yeast, worms, flies, spiders, fish, mice and rats. And now, in a study funded by the US National Institutes of Health, many of the same benefits have been demonstrated in primates, the best evidence yet that caloric restriction would help people.
The findings, published in the journal Science, emerged from a study of rhesus monkeys that had been on a reduced-calorie regimen for as long as 20 years. The animals' risk of dying from cancer, heart disease and diabetes fell by more than two-thirds.
The results came as validation to people who profess to practise caloric restriction and were welcomed by scientists who study the biological mechanisms of ageing and longevity.
"It adds to the evidence piling up that caloric restriction, independent of thinness, is a healthy way to stay alive and healthy longer," said Susan Roberts, of the Human Nutrition Research Centre on Ageing at Tufts University, who was not involved in the study. "Less diseases in old age has to be something most everyone wants."
Luigi Fontana, a medical professor at Washington University in St Louis, examined people who had been practising caloric restriction for an average of 6½ years and found their heart function was equivalent to those of people 16 years younger.
"Mild caloric restriction is beneficial to everybody," Dr Fontana said.
The regimen sounds gruelling but is hardly a starvation diet, experts say. It typically begins with an assessment to determine how many calories an individual needs to maintain a healthy weight. That number is then shaved by 10 to 30 per cent.
People on caloric restriction can eat three meals a day. A typical menu includes cereal with fruit and nuts for breakfast and a big salad for lunch and dinner with lean meat. There is also room for a couple of snacks and a small dessert from time to time.
Caloric restriction has produced consistent health benefits for animals. In the new study, scientists tracked 76 adult rhesus monkeys from the Wisconsin National Primate Research Centre, from 1989. Half the animals were fed a typical diet of lab chow; the rest got a version with a higher concentration of vitamins and minerals to make up for the 30 per cent reduction in chow quantity.
Over the course of the study, the monkeys that ate the regular diet were three times more likely to die of an age-related disease than were their counterparts on caloric restriction. Fourteen deaths in the control group were attributable to age-related diseases, compared with five such deaths among the animals that ate 30 per cent fewer calories, the study found.
The rates of cardiovascular disease and precancerous cell growths were twice as high in the control group as the reduced-calorie group.
The researchers also noted that while five of the control monkeys became diabetic and 11 were classified as prediabetic, the calorie-restricted animals remained diabetes-free.
In all, the monkeys on caloric restriction "appear to be biologically younger than the normally fed animals", the researchers wrote.
Scientists are not sure why eating less slows the ageing process, but theories abound. There is evidence from mice that caloric restriction induces the body to activate fewer genes related to inflammation, which many scientists suspect plays a key role in ageing.
Another theory holds that starved organisms hunker down in maintenance mode, shutting down activities such as reproduction, which wear the body down.
Or perhaps caloric restriction reduces body temperature, thus limiting the production of free radicals, which break down the body by damaging tissues and DNA.
"It's all speculation," said Dr Sergei Romashkan of the National Institute on Ageing, who is overseeing a clinical trial of caloric restriction in people.
The study authors will not be able to calculate how much caloric restriction extended the monkeys' average lifespan - or whether it boosted their maximum lifespan - until all the animals have died. That could take 10 to 15 years, said a senior author, Richard Weindruch, medical professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Also left unanswered are questions about the psychological state of monkeys who spend most of their adult lives on a forced diet, Ms Roberts said. Are they happy? Are they hungry? Can they think as quickly?
When Jay Phelan, an evolutionary biologist at the University of California, Los Angeles, put mice on caloric restriction, he got the distinct impression that they did not appreciate it. "They bit people and were more agitated," he said. The mice who ate a normal diet "would just sit around and let you pick them up".
Dr Weindruch said he was under no illusion that the monkey findings would prompt many people to adopt caloric restriction. He has started a company to create drugs that would provide the same health benefits without extreme dieting.
Physiologists agreed that instead of promoting caloric restriction, a more pressing goal is to help the two-thirds of Americans who are overweight or obese shed their extra kilograms.
Cheers
Your right about skinny people often being unhealthy often with fat around organs (TOFI)- thin outside fat inside, this happens a fair bit to Asian people, caused by diet. Most Asian people with a body mass of 23 would be fat from researchers, I posted something on this on this forum.