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A Low Calorie Diet May Affect Aging Right Click to Download MP3 File Brief Description: Transcript: Hadley: This is very important. By no means does it show that this kind of diet would in fact create longer life. For that you need a longer study. It's important to remember that this is only a 6 month study. During this phase on a low calorie diet the people were still losing weight. Obviously people who are on low calorie diet for a long period of time; they wouldn't keep losing weight other wise they would disappear. After a while when you go on a low calorie diet your weight stabilizes out and you maintain your body weight though at a lower level than it would be if you ate more. So we still don't know much about the effects of staying on a low calorie diet for longer periods of time would be and that's an important thing to find out. Akinso: Dr. Hadley said the evidence from controlled clinical trials such as this is crucial for understanding caloric restriction's effect on aging. A pilot study is a preliminary investigation to determine the feasibility of a larger study. Dr. Hadley said the trial is expected to start in the fall. This is Wally Akinso at the National Institutes of Health Bethesda, Maryland. |
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