Starvation Diet Scarcely Prolongs Human Life
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Starving -- officially known as caloric restriction -- may make worms and mice live as much as 50% longer but it will not help humans live super-long lives, two biologists argue.
The researchers, writing in the journal Ageing Research Reviews, said their mathematical model showed that a lifetime of low-calorie dieting would extend human life span by about 7%.
“Suffering years of misery to remain super-skinny is not going to have a big payoff in terms of a longer life,” said John Phelan of UCLA, who conducted the research with Michael Rose of UC Irvine.
