Noted: Can all this be backed up by science? Professor Richard Weindruch, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, started researching the effects of CR on primates 20 years ago. Last year he published a report in Science that revealed that while 37 per cent of control-fed animals had died from old age, only 13 per cent of those fed a calorie-restricted diet had. CR seemed to slow the onset of age-associated pathologies.
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