Eat less and well

The researchs confirms that a caloric restriction extends primates life and, above all, improves their quality in old age


Eatting less does not mean to follow the traditional diet to maintain the weight, of the style 2,500 or 3,000 kilocalories daily, that usually advise the nutritionists. It means eating less than that, maybe 30% less. That is, it means going hungry, and also keeping an exquisite care so that there is no lack of essential nutrients in the diet. The second is that the confirmation we are talking about is for the moment in non-human primates, so that we still do not have the bomb-proof confirmation for human primates.

Extending life has undoubted power, but scientists and doctors are much more interested in the other side of the issue: that calorie restriction improves life even if it does not lengthen it. It warns against the four horsemen of the apocalypse in developed countries: heart attack, cancer, diabetes and neurodegeneration.
The reason is that it slows down the aging, and with it the appearance of all those diseases that are the easements of the age. This is precisely the kind of preventive medicine we need, because continuing to base the increase in average life expectancy on increasingly expensive heart attack treatments is unsustainable even in the medium term. And the export of our Western fat festivals to developing countries threatens to generate a planetary pandemic of obesity, disease and premature death.

Glossary

Bomb-profe   -   A prueba de bomba
Easements      -  Servidumbres

Commentary

In my opinion this text speaks of a complicated subject that is the food and generalizes enough, since we can not base this thesis of eating less in our day to day without consultation to a qualified professional

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