Wednesday, April 04, 2007

Eat less could cut risk of cancer

The quest to create an effective anti-ageing pill receive a big boost from study that sheds light on why eating much less can help people live longer. Studies in a wide range of species from monkeys, to worms and mice have come to the same conclysion, eat all the nutritions necessary for a healthy life and cut calories to the bare minimum - half the normal daily amount and you could extent life span by up to half, pushing well over century, while cutting the risk of cancer,ovarian cancer, heart disease and strokes.

Another insight into how calorie restrition translates into a longer life is published by a team that has studied what happen in the body during these extreme diets. It is thought the effect could be mimicked with a long lifge pill. One theory on how calorie restrition slows agring is that it lowers free radical production by indycing the imformation of efficient mitochondria.