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Weight Loss Diet: Healthy Eating, Losing Fat and Calories

Losing weight: Diet is the practice of eating in a regulated fashion to achieve a long-term objective. The most common objective is loss of excess body fat. Weight-loss diets restrict the intake of specific foods to reduce body weight. What works to reduce body weight for one person will not necessarily work for another, due to metabolic differences and lifestyle factors. There are lot of quick weight loss products available, but not all of them are efficient. The studies have shown that the best ways to lose weight are keeping a food diary or having a weight loss surgery.

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More evidence links longer lives to calorie restriction diest   sphere.com :: 2010-01-06
The potential for calorie-restriction diets to lengthen lifespans has been pondered for decades. Now research is offering the first solid evidence that eating less might lead to longer human lifespans. Biologists grew different human cells, and then fed them different amounts of glucose. Healthy cells on a low-glucose diet lived longer than expected, and precancerous cells died off in mass quantities. The implications of the study - the first to examine life span using human cells, not lab animals - could be profound as more and more data suggests that calorie restriction might be a means to longer life and a reduction of age-related illnesses.

Caloric restriction slows aging in monkeys: prevents diabetes, cancer, heart disease   technologyreview.com :: 2009-08-12
A 20-year study involving rhesus monkeys has offered the first strong evidence that caloric restriction slows the aging process in primates. A diet that's nutritionally sufficient but provides 30% fewer calories than normal has been shown to extend life span and delay the age-related diseases in other animals. But because studies on primates take much longer, the benefits had not yet been proved to extend to them. Now researchers report that in rhesus monkeys, caloric restriction decreases risk of the most common age-related conditions (diabetes, cancer, heart disease, and brain atrophy) by a third.

The pros and cons of fasting   latimes.com :: 2009-02-19
Some people are adopting an unusual solution to overeating: they don't eat. At least not at certain times of the day or specific days of the week. Called intermittent fasting, this approach to weight control seems to be supported by science. The practice seems to yield the benefits of calorie restriction, which may decrease the risk of some diseases and even prolong life. Mark P. Mattson, chief of the laboratory of neurosciences at the National Institute on Aging: "In normal health subjects, moderate fasting (one day a week or cutting back on calories a couple of days a week) will have health benefits for most anybody."

Calorie restriction may boost aging brains   washingtonpost.com :: 2009-01-29
Eating less to remember more might become a new proverb for some aged people. Researchers found that memory and thinking skills improved among healthy, overweight subjects who cut their calorie intake by 30% over a 3-month period. The calorie restriction may boost memory and cognition by reducing insulin resistance and inflammation, which may be associated to age-related cognitive decline. The research also tested whether a increase in unsaturated fatty acids (like the omega-3 fatty acid) would yield similar benefits. These healthy fats have indicated better cognitive performance in rats, but the new study failed to find a similar result in humans.

Diet diehards eat less to live longer   afp :: 2008-11-12
Motivated by animal experiments showing that underfeeding boosts vitality and prolongs life by 30%, the US-based Calorie Restriction Society is cutting down calorie intake in a bid to halt the ageing process. Society member Bob Cavanaugh: "Some people are doing it strictly to enhance longevity. Others do it to avoid age-related disease..." Professor Luigi Fontana has led or co-authored over a dozen studies on reduced calorie intake in humans. He is also studying longterm effects by monitoring a group of 50 adults who have been on calorie restriction diets for at least a decade - and so far their Diabetes and cancer rates are down.

Caloric restriction comes in a pill : with anti-aging benefits   wired.com/ :: 2008-07-10
Scientists have firm evidence that the anti-aging benefits of calorically restricted diets can be duplicated by a pill. In a study mice given resveratrol (the first of a class of longevity drugs) enjoyed improved health. Resveratrol didn't extend the lives of normal mice, but it did guard them from the ravages of time. "For the first time, we can mimic caloric restriction in an otherwise healthy animal. That's been the goal of the field for decades. We didn't know it was possible to let an animal eat whatever it wants, but still get the benefits. We now have evidence," explained David Sinclair.

Research: Cutting calories could lengthen life   cbc.ca :: 2008-07-10
Cutting the number of calories you eat daily could extend your life. Eating 300-500 fewer calories per day has scales down the aging process by lowering a thyroid hormone triiodothyronine, which has been shown in previous studies to slow metabolism and the aging of tissues. While persons in both the calorie-restriction group and exercise group lost weight and body fat, only those in the calorie-reduction group saw their triiodothyronine levels decrease. "There is plenty of evidence the calorie restriction can reduce your risks for many common diseases," said Edward Weiss.

Painless weight loss, cut 50 calories per meal   msnbc :: 2007-03-03
A sensible approach to weight control: switch from looking for major dietary changes to recognizing how differences of just 50 calories can add up to weight loss. Everyone's metabolism is a bit different, but usually each pound of body fat equals 3,500 calories. Cutting 500 calories a day should knock off about a pound a week. You can slowly but painlessly lose weight by cutting back just 50 calories at each meal to reduce your daily intake by 150 calories. If you can find 100 calories to comfortably trim from each meal, weight loss will move along even faster. You can then burn 100 calories more by sneaking in a little activity.

Weight loss through calorie restriction may lead to bone loss   eurekalert :: 2006-12-13
Men and women who lose weight by cutting calories also may be losing bone density, but weight loss through exercise does not seem to have the same effect. Most U.S. adults are either overweight or obese. The primary treatment is lifestyle modification, including exercise and low-calorie diets. However, decreasing body weight is associated with decreased bone mineral density. Individuals in the calorie-restriction group lost an average of 2.2% of their bone density in the lower spine, 2.2% at the hip and 2.1% at the top end of the femur-all high-risk fracture sites.

Is a low-calorie diet the secret to longevity - restricted-calorie diet   msnbc :: 2006-11-13
We all know that cutting back on calories promotes weight loss, but does it also promote longevity? Many Americans seem to think so. Their beliefs are based on animal studies done as far back as the 1930s. The experiments show that eating 25%-40% fewer calories every day can extend animals' lifespan by up to 50%. The restricted-calorie diet limits the total calories a person consumes, while retaining a balance of nutrients, in the belief that that will slow down the aging process. This diet, which takes a lot of discipline, is not a weight-loss plan, although, that is one of its side effects.

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