Laboratory studies have shown consistently that animals eating less food, or eating less often, can live longer. But scientists have struggled to understand why these kinds of restrictive diets work ...

Research suggests that while cutting calories might help you lose weight and reduce risk of disease, it also carries health risks. Living comes with a side effect: aging. Despite what you might hear ...

Decades ago, in the 1930s, researchers working with lab rats made an interesting discovery. Animals that had been deprived of food seemed to live longer than rodents that were fed to satisfaction, ...

Intermittent fasting has its benefits but effectively extending the lifespan of living beings might not be one of them, according to a recent Nature study. Instead, the mouse study revealed that ...

Studies of different animal species suggest a link between eating less and living longer, but the molecular mechanisms by which caloric restriction affords protection against disease and extends ...

Our diets play a key role in the way our bodies age, but the relationship between the two is much more complicated than we once thought. Numerous studies in animals have shown that restricting ...

Intermittent fasting and calorie deficits can both be used for weight management and fat loss—in most cases, the most ...

The Hunger March at the forgotten conflict meeting in Copenhagen, October 2003. Source: http://www.aidoh.dk. (Author: Jens Galschiot) Source: Wikimedia Commons/Public ...

Mar. 23 -- THURSDAY, Sept. 20 (HealthDay News) -- Harvard researchers report they have uncovered a molecular clue that seems to explain why cutting calories might lengthen your life. It turns out that ...

The widespread observation that caloric restriction will increase longevity must be tempered with the recognition that it has progressively less effect the later in life it is begun, 66 as well as ...