How Does Reduced Calorie Intake Promote Life Span Extension

It is never too late to promote life span extension through sensible diet. A study shows that a strict low-calorie diet can promote life span of mice more than 40 percent. Many studies have shown that using this method on starting young mice on a diet with calorie restriction can help them live months longer than animals fed a standard diet. But the new study shows that even 19 months old mice can be comparable to 60 and 65 years of life in human. Those can be achieved by eating fewer calories. (more…)