Date: 18/03/2014 19:06:27
From: buffy
ID: 505134
Subject: Dietary restriction to prolong life

Looks like some researchers are suggesting this is a laboratory artefact:

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bies.201300165/abstract;jsessionid=0608B7AC072DD1C07724B70B56E5279C.f02t01

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Date: 18/03/2014 22:20:12
From: Bubblecar
ID: 505325
Subject: re: Dietary restriction to prolong life

Presumably the humans trying this would count as labrats, since they’re not living in the wild.

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Date: 18/03/2014 22:22:56
From: tauto
ID: 505326
Subject: re: Dietary restriction to prolong life

I have noticed that there is never a fat 100yo.

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Date: 18/03/2014 22:34:42
From: Bubblecar
ID: 505334
Subject: re: Dietary restriction to prolong life

tauto said:


I have noticed that there is never a fat 100yo.

True, but that might change before long, given the improvements in health care coupled with the big increase in obesity.

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Date: 20/03/2014 02:14:34
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 505959
Subject: re: Dietary restriction to prolong life

Obviously you read my “If nutrition was a science” thread, where I said:

> Weight & Lifespan
> There is scientific evidence both for and against the claim that weight loss for obese people increases their lifespan. Discuss this evidence in detail.

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Date: 20/03/2014 07:03:46
From: buffy
ID: 505962
Subject: re: Dietary restriction to prolong life

No. I presented something here from the scientific literature that I thought people might be interested in.

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