Eat less for a longer, healthier life, new research suggests

A UK-US research team has discovered that restricting calorie content can lengthen life. The results of the study, published in the journal Science, show that eating fewer calories can lead not only to a longer life, but a healthier one too, avoiding much of the disease that often plagues people in their later years.

The team, from University College London, UK, the University of Southern California (USC) Davis School of Gerontology and Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis, US, carried out calorie restriction tests on rodents and found that restricting their food intake had a significant effect on the molecular pathways that are related to the ageing process..............& more