Diet
Instead of eating a few large meals every day, he ate six small meals, keeping track of how many calories he consumed. He had been eating more than 2,500 calories a day, perhaps 3,000, so he cut this down to 1,500 calories a day. That meant losing a pound every two or three days.
"As long as you know how many calories you need and how many calories you eat, it's just math," he said.
By MIKE STOBBE, AP Medical Writer Thu Jul 17, 7:23 AM ET
ATLANTA - The Atkins diet may have proved itself after all: A low-carb diet and a Mediterranean-style regimen helped people lose more weight than a traditional low-fat diet in one of the longest and largest studies to compare the dueling weight-loss techniques.
To find out how the age-defying treatment works in humans, Longo and his group are now studying Ecuadorians who have similar mutations in age-controlling genes used in the yeast.
“People with two copies of the mutations have very small stature and other defects,” he said.
Despite the problems, Longo said, the people likely benefit from their condition.
Whether it's hot buttered rum or spiced apple cider, find out how many calories are in your holiday drink favorites.
For many, seasonal celebrations aren't complete without festive holiday drinks — mulled red wine, homemade hot cocoa, chilled champagne or creamy eggnog. Though these holiday drinks are often part of festivities and time-honored traditions, they do add extra calories to what likely is a calorie-laden menu.
In an analysis of 80 weight-loss studies, researchers found that approaches that focused on trimming calories -- with or without exercise -- were most effective at keeping the pounds off over four years.
Researchers say healthy restaurants often prompt consumers to treat themselves to higher-calorie side dishes, drinks or desserts than they would normally eat at fast-food and other restaurants that do not claim to be healthy.
Caloric restriction is still the only scientifically known method to stay young and delay aging. This is an old article, but still worth reading.
Although this news is a bit old, it's very relavent to YBMers. So here you are!
A small sign on the cage of Ludwig, an older but fit-looking rhesus monkey, warns "caution, grabby."
Understandably, Ludwig reaches out of his cage a lot. He's been on an extremely low-calorie, experimental diet for years and he probably would eat anything he could get his hands on.
At the same time, Ludwig's handlers are hoping to get a better grasp of a quickly evolving concept that could prove to be a mini fountain of youth.
Can humans live to beyond 100 if they eat a nutritionally packed diet that contains about 30 percent fewer calories than normal?
The study was carried out on nematode worms
The mystery of how eating less boosts longevity is closer to being solved.
Studies have shown that severe calorie restriction markedly extends lifespan in mice and many other species - but the reasons for this remained elusive.
But now US research on nematode worms, published in Nature, has uncovered a gene linked to this unusual effect.
In the future, the find could lead to drugs that mimic the consequences of calorie restriction but negate the need for severe fasting regimes.
Sweet-spot
The life-lengthening properties of reducing calorie intake were first discovered in the 1930s, when laboratory rodents fed a severely reduced diet were found to outlive their well-fed peers.
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