Diet and Longevity

LongevityDietetics and nutrition are now becoming a broad research. For decades, is looking at the answer given by certain animals to caloric restriction, applied to them, giving extraordinary and impressive results. One of the most interesting is the great longevity of animals subjected to caloric restriction, which certainly reminds us of the importance of diet food.

Is known and is under investigation, the enormous amount of food components beneficial to health and disease prevention. Also have seen the healthy character of caloric restriction, and not only in people with certain diseases such as obesity and overweight, but also diabetes, hypertension and degenerative diseases of aging, like cardiovascular diseases, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, etc.

Are impressive data on the activity of caloric restriction in animal organisms, particularly in mice fed 35% fewer calories (whose life expectancy is 25 to 27 months) lived an average of 53 months, almost double its life expectancy. These results have also been observed in primates, and recently but in a shorter period in humans.

The mechanism of action is caloric restriction slow aging, but also significantly delayed the onset of certain diseases that occur with age such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, osteoporosis, hypertension, demensia, eye diseases, etc.

However, if you want to put in Practical calorie restriction requires a deep knowledge of nutrition to devise a diet in which with the passage of time does not appear Nutrional deficiencies.

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