Low energy food: 'Longevity secret' ?!

The steps of age are unstoppable. But a recent study reveals the secret of long life to be in eating foods based on very low calorie foods.

An international team of scientists has found that cutting down on calories from a normal 30 percent meal can slow down the aging process and thus prolong life.

In fact, researchers have known before that that reducing calories to just above the level of malnutrition reduces the risk of some diseases such as heart disease, cancer by half and increases age. up to approximately 1/3.

Reducing calories can live longer ?!(Photo: Times of Indi)

For the study, the scientists took 76 Asian golden monkeys at the time of adulthood, half for normal eating as controls, and half reduced their diets to provide only 70% of the total. Energy can be obtained compared to normal diets. The follow-up process lasts until . 20 years. They found that 37% of monkeys fed with limited diets were still alive, while the number of ' free ' monkeys ate only 13%.

The lead researcher, Professor Richard Weindruck, of the University of Wisconsin (USA), said: ' This suggests to us that we can detect ways to extend life expectancy (if only taking a long life as an item). target), but it is necessary to carefully conduct similar biological studies on rats, flies, worms and many other animals before testing them in primate species .