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Low-Cal Diet Extends Life... As Long as You Don't Eat
There has been a lot of research recently showing that a restricted calorie diet can extend the lifespans of various creatures. Sadly, it seems that as soon as they start eating again, the benefits are lost.
studies have shown that research causes cancer in rats.
... it just seems that way
Ahh well the last one isn't a problem for slashdotters...
this thread makes me hungry !!! whos down for some pizza?
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Studies have shown that male animals (of various species) that are kept separated from females all their lifes can live up to 20% longer. In other words having no sex lets you live longer. The combination of forced abstinence and strict diet can add decades to a person's life.
As a Belgian Radio announcer commented when this result was published, this finally explains why Catholic priests have a surprising tendency to die around 28.
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When Hillary Clinton asked Strom Thurmond his secret to staying fit, he replied that he never ate anything larger than an egg. I guess it worked for him.
"Extremism in defense of liberty is more fun."
The funny thing is that although fruitflies on a restricted diet live much longer, they basically stop all reproductive activity -- which, arguably, is the whole point of this "life thing". So the longer lifespan, in some sense, is more like a drawn out death.
If that's not irony I don't know what is.
There has been a lot of research recently showing that a restricted slashdot experience can extend the daily amount of sleep enjoyed by various creatures. Sadly, it seems that as soon as they start slashdotting again, the benefits are lost.
Hunger is the best sauce.
I had a horse trained to never eat at all, but then he died, which was a terrible coincidence because it was a great breakthrough.
A good shagging would probably kill half the slashdotters, either from the exertions or the sheer surprise of having finally scored.
But they would go with a smile on thier faces.
What science needs to create now is a pill [...] without any side effects.
Its on the agenda. Right after that perpetual motion device and the time machine...
You can't take the sky from me...
Okay, I'm probably too late for anyone to see this but...
So anorexia isn't a disease, it's a survival mechanism?
"He's more machine now than man, twisted and evil."