X-Message-Number: 13867 Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 08:59:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Skrecky <> Subject: None of the CR research on lab animals is valid. In Message #13865 Mike Perry <> wrote: > It could certainly be the case > that the lifespan increase is entirely due to the poor diets the lab mice > have been exposed to, but this must be so for many, many experiments over > the several decades that CR has been studied. I'm sure many diets were > tried, and to me it seems unlikely that all of the observed increases in > lifespan can be attributed entirely to poor food. > Diets tried are based on table sugar, or cornstarch. Both are very unhealthy. None of the CR research on lab animals is valid. > thinner people with adequate nutrition are longer-lived." A > reference I was given on this is: NIH National Task Force on the Prevention > of Obesity, "Very Low-Calorie Diets," JAMA 270 #8 (1993) 967-74. > Old research, new research has found physical fitness drives mortality, and not body weight. Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=13867