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Settling a persistent scientific controversy, a long-awaited report shows that restricting calories does indeed help rhesus monkeys live longer, healthier lives.
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First, the animals in the two studies had their diets restricted at different ages. Comparative analysis reveals that eating less is beneficial in adult and older primates but is not beneficial for younger animals. This is a major departure from prior studies in rodents, where starting at an earlier age is better in achieving the benefits of a low-calorie diet.Second, in the old-onset group of monkeys at NIA, the control monkeys ate less than the Wisconsin control group. This lower food intake was associated with improved survival compared to the Wisconsin controls. The previously reported lack of difference in survival between control and restricted groups for older-onset monkeys within NIA emerges as beneficial differences when compared to the UW-Madison data. In this way, it seems that small differences in food intake in primates could meaningfully affect aging and health.
Third, diet composition was substantially different between studies. The NIA monkeys ate naturally sourced foods and the UW-Madison monkeys, part of the colony at the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center, ate processed food with higher sugar content. The UW-Madison control animals were fatter than the control monkeys at NIA, indicating that at nonrestricted levels of food intake, what is eaten can make a big difference for fat mass and body composition.
The study says nothing about whether the monkeys lived happier lives.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 18 2017, @08:30PM
I think the key here is that you feel "better", not that you feel "Great!".
Being alive is, actually, quite uncomfortable—it's your choice: You can either feel uncomfortable, or you can feel even more uncomfortable.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 18 2017, @09:57PM
I knew someone who once said he feels uncomfortable in his own skin. I'm sorry if you suffer from a similar issue, but personally I don't find any discomfort unless I'm treating my body badly or I'm sick. After a good run and a shower I actually do feel great. My day to day is "I feel fine" cause the human body is great at learning to ignore problems.
For a short period I did hot yoga regularly. It is intense, but my body sure did feel great afterwards and I felt good almost all the time. I should build my own hot yoga room, got tired of having to be around a bunch of newage types just to get the workout.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday January 18 2017, @10:27PM
That's why you find the right club and do it around hot young newage women. Of course, I've assumed your gender, sexuality, marital status and/or faithfulness here. If gawking isn't your style, you could memorize some pro-vax and pro-GMO factoids and try to cause them mental anguish. Call it mental yoga, an essential part of the full enlightenment package.
Hang on, how "hot" of a yoga are we talking here? In the sauna? In the buff?
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(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 18 2017, @11:55PM
Hot yoga is literal, 100+ degrees F, up to 110-120. I regularly drank almost a gallon of water per session, stinky business with 10-20 people...
I realize you were kidding, but giving legitimacy to anti vaxxers etc. is the opposite of mental yoga, that is delving into deception and social bullshit which will only clutter your path to inner peace :P I should clarify, it was a combo of newage crap (which I can mostly handle) and competitive attitudes. Hot Yoga, or the popular franchise you may have heard "Bikram Yoga" is the only type that pushes competition. They actually have yoga competitions, which I'm sure would make the old masters roll over in their graves. Its supposed to be about personal development and exploration of your own body, not comparing to how well someone else can do a pose. My instructor once decided to show off and lightly pulled a muscle... so wrong from the philosophical perspective of Yoga. It is funny you mention mental yoga, even as a jest, because the standard teachings are that physical yoga is only half. If you're not doing the mental part of meditation and reflection then you aren't really practicing yoga, you're just a weird gymnast.
PS: Did you just assume my gender fambae??? TO THE GULAG!