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Adults, and particularly younger people, have one more reason for reducing the calories you take in each day. If the test monkey from some terribly positive research appearing in Science are any indication, by following calorie proscribed diets you’ll live longer, look younger and stay disease free.

Monkeys, as near as you can get genetically to humans, fed a low calorie diet have a longer life, have fewer indications of aging and less disease – conditions like cardiovascular illness, brain atrophy and even cancer – in the opinion of some new engaging research.

In the twenty-year research, the school of Wisconsin-Madison analysts found half of the monkeys authorized to eat as they wished were still alive, while 80% of monkeys who ate the same foods but with a 3rd less calories have survived.

Other professionals think the long life span of monkeys ( about 40 years ) means conclusions on longevity and what we eat can’t yet be exprapolated and we want to wait a while to be sure.

This new thinking but long term study commenced in 1989 with 30 rhesus macaques and was meant to take a look at the health results of a calorie-restricted diet.

Earlier work from 1935 had indicated that mice fed a calorie restricted diet lived up to 40% longer – the team wanted to see if the same might be true for primates.

In 1994 the research was expanded with the addition of 46 further animals. All of the subjects were adults when they were enrolled, and of the first 76 in the study, 37% of the control monkeys lost their lives to age-related causes – 13% of the animal’s fed a prohibited calorie diet died of similar effects.

The prevalence of cancerous cancers and heart disease in the monkeys who consumed restricted calorie diet plans was half that of the animals permitted to eat what they preferred.

Actually, the oldest monkey still in the study is control subject Owen, who is twenty-nine, two years older than the average life span of twenty-seven years in captivity.

One of the more outstanding discoveries of the study came in the case of diabetes ( or pre-diabetes ).

This illness was discovered in 42% of the control monkeys who ate as they liked and none of the monkeys on the prohibited calorie diets.

And when it comes to mental health, the animals who ate a calorie-restricted diet were better off here too, according to Sterling Johnson, a brain consultant and another of the analysts.

The report revealed the areas of the brain that are tied to short term memory and critical thinking are better preserved in these subjects.

These same brain scan results have been seen in other research on animals like fish, mice, worms, rodents and spiders. All the gurus can say for sure now is that there are differences in places of the brain that might be related to what a subject ate.

A restricted amount of these same types of studies have been attempted on humans, and have resulted in fewer symptoms of heart aging according to experts.

More work should be done, and analysts who study aging are divided on what stock to put in this work, but that doesn’t mean there’s not a ggod case for following calorie proscribed diets to keep your body healthy today and also as you age.

Next – just head on over to the Daily Health Bulletin for more information on how calorie-restricted diets mean living longer. Click here for more details on this calorie-restricted diets study.