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Calorie restriction leads to fewer deaths, disease, UW study finds

The secret to a long, disease-free life may be as simple as pushing yourself away from the dinner table before eating too muchâ?¦at least if you’re a monkey.

Working with rhesus monkeys for 20 years, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have found that severely restricting calories led to significantly fewer deaths from natural causes as well as less diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular disease and brain shrinkage.