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Eating 40% less food could extend your life by 20 years, claim scientists developing treatment for 'disease' of ageing
UCL scientists studying how genetics and lifestyle can be adapted to offset the effects of ageing
By GRAHAM SMITH
PUBLISHED: 11:41 GMT, 3 July 2012
Eating 40 per cent less food could extend a person's life by 20 years, according to scientists.
Researchers at the Institute of Health Ageing at University College London are developing a treatment they hope will combat the 'disease' of getting older.
They are looking into how genetics and lifestyle can be adapted to offset the effects of ageing and add years, possibly decades, to a person's life.
Age-related diseases such as cardiovascular disease, cancer and neurodegeneration can also be combated, it is claimed.
One line of inquiry that the team is developing is how the life of a rat can be increased by up to 30 per cent simply by reducing its food intake.
Lead researcher Dr Piper told the Independent: 'If you reduce the diet of a rat by 40 per cent it will live for 20 or 30 per cent longer. So we would be talking 20 years of human life. This has shown on all sorts of organisms, even labradors.'
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...g-treatment-disease-ageing.html#ixzz207S9vBEX
UCL scientists studying how genetics and lifestyle can be adapted to offset the effects of ageing
By GRAHAM SMITH
PUBLISHED: 11:41 GMT, 3 July 2012
Eating 40 per cent less food could extend a person's life by 20 years, according to scientists.
Researchers at the Institute of Health Ageing at University College London are developing a treatment they hope will combat the 'disease' of getting older.
They are looking into how genetics and lifestyle can be adapted to offset the effects of ageing and add years, possibly decades, to a person's life.
Age-related diseases such as cardiovascular disease, cancer and neurodegeneration can also be combated, it is claimed.
One line of inquiry that the team is developing is how the life of a rat can be increased by up to 30 per cent simply by reducing its food intake.
Lead researcher Dr Piper told the Independent: 'If you reduce the diet of a rat by 40 per cent it will live for 20 or 30 per cent longer. So we would be talking 20 years of human life. This has shown on all sorts of organisms, even labradors.'
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...g-treatment-disease-ageing.html#ixzz207S9vBEX