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. 

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