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If you want to slow aging, you want might to eat less. Researchers in the United States say eating less can slow the aging process of cells in the body.
This finding is good news – if you are a mouse. The researchers studied mice, not people.
John Price is a biochemistry professor at Brigham Young University in the U.S. state of Utah.
He and other researchers studied two groups of mice. One group was able to eat as much as it wanted. The researchers restricted what the other animals in the other group ate. Their diet had 35 percent fewer
Price says the mice with the diet restrictions were “more energetic and suffered fewer diseases.” They were not just living longer, they seemed to stay younger for a longer period of time.
Price says that when you restrict calories (in mice), there is a direct increase in lifespan – the average age of the animal. He and his team found that calorie “restriction caused real
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