"In the new study, scientists tracked 76 adult rhesus monkeys from the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center starting in 1989. Half the animals were fed a typical diet of lab chow, and the rest got a version with a higher concentration of vitamins and minerals to make up for the 30% reduction in chow quantity. Over the course of the study, the monkeys that ate the regular diet were three times more likely to die of an age-related disease than their counterparts on caloric restriction. Fourteen deaths in the control group were attributable to age-related diseases, compared with five such deaths among the animals that ate 30% fewer calories, according to the study. The rates of cardiovascular disease and pre-cancerous cell growths were twice as high in the control group compared with the reduced-calorie group. The researchers also noted that although five of the control monkeys became diabetic and 11 were classified as pre-diabetic, all the calorie-restricted animals remained diabetes-free."The devilish thing here is that it's tasty to eat the bad stuff and the good stuff seems like rabbit food. Changing from my blubber-building lousy diet to something healthy is going to require going hungry and changing a lot of bad habits. Ugh.
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The monkey on the left does not look like a happy monkey. He looks like a prisoner of war. Will he actually live 5 years longer than his colleague, or will it just seem that way to him? Surely there must be a happy medium.
Besides, both of the monkeys were fed "lab chow" -- not fresh fruit, bark, bugs, rodents, leaves, etc. of their highly varied natural diet.
! Happy? They are both living in cages. I think it's hard to tell quality of life from looking at this photo.
The study just concentrates on lifespan. Luckily you have more control over you life - and you eating habits.
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