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Permanent diet may equal longer life

by 158 | July 10, 2009 at 04:41 pm

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With a reduced-calorie diet, monkeys were less likely to die of an age-related disease -- cancer, heart disease or diabetes, reports a study in the journal Science.
For a country in which roughly 200 million people are overweight or obese, scientists today have discouraging news: Even those who maintain a healthy weight probably should be eating less.

Evidence has been mounting for years 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 has been shown to significantly extend the lives of yeast, worms, flies, spiders, fish, mice and rats.

Obesity is becoming the leading cause

of death in the United States and in much

of the developed world. Something must

be done soon. Adults must change their

eating habits and even more important for

the long term teach children proper eating

habits from an early age and also keep them

eating right as they becdome teen agers.

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pinktadpoles

at 06:57 on July 11th, 2009

Is this news?? A man weighing 150 lbs (clearly we're talking about a man from somewhere outside of the US) should consume only 1800 calories a day. A woman weighing 120 lbs, only 1320 calories a day.

These kind of numbers do not allow for our favorite foods!

Pizza averages 600 calories PER SLICE! 600!!

McDonald's (which always has a steady flow of traffic through it): an itty bitty double cheesburger packs 421 calories, then add the large fries that no one skips and there's another 400...if you're foolish enough to have a milkshake add 380! That's almost an entire day's worth of calories in one sitting.

Just imagine for a moment how much food and how many calories are consumed during one meal at a buffet!!

So again people, in addition to eating less YOU HAVE TO EAT THE RIGHT FOODS. There is no allowance for more than one meal if your one meal is over what you should take in.

Oh, and that's not even lookng at fat grams.

And none of this matters too much unless the people who need to listen actually do.

158

at 09:37 on July 11th, 2009

Thanks for the numbers.

You make a point. If people who are overweight do not listen this will not matter, They must chqange eating habits, maybe go to McD once a week instead of 8 times,