X-Message-Number: 10578
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 21:56:25 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug Skrecky <>
Subject: more on fitness versus fatness

In Message #10566 Jan Coetzee <> wrote:
>Ben, the truth of the matter is one can only increase the life span of
>mice if one restrict them during development. The equivalent would be to
>restrict the quantity (not quality) of food in a human for their first ~
>20 years of life. After the first 20 years it really does not  matter.
>Maybe you know of an experiment where they only used so to speak adult
>mice to start with. This my opinion.
>
If there exists any data supporting an antiaging effect of caloric
restriction in adult humans I'd like to see it.

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