Beyond the obesity issue, there’s a great deal of debate these days—as there should be—about how what we eat affects our health. We go on endlessly about a “balanced diet,” interpreting what that actually means in a million different ways. But the one thing we can definitively measure and keep track of—how much we eat—could have critical health consequences, too. A famous 25-year study on primates and calorie intake published in 2013 found that monkeys eating a restricted diet (by 30 percent) live longer and endure fewer age-related diseases.
Posted on: Wed, 03 Dec 2014 03:06:48 +0000