22/2/04 3:28 PM Tom Bridgeland wrote:
> One small point to remember, the "control" rats were fed "ad libitum"
> which means, as much as they want. I guess rats are not much different
> from people, in a boring environment, with all the food they can eat,
> what do they do? Not too healthy. Calorie restricted may be much
> healthier than daily overeating.
Is the above the same study that is cited on the Weston Price site?? If so I
add couple more of pars for comment:
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Stephen R. Spindler, professor of biochemistry at the University of
California at Riverside is the current guru of calorie restriction.
"Low-Calorie Diet Slows Aging in Mice in Study," claimed a recent
headline.17 According to the article, "Putting elderly mice on a very
low-calorie diet for as little as four weeks reversed many of the changes
in the activity of various genes that had occurred during normal aging..."
The resesearchers were not looking at actual signs of disease, nor were
they measuring lifespan, but instead focused on the analysis of 11,000
different genes using a method called microarray technology in which
Spindler has large financial holdings.
Actually, none of these studies is particularly relevant to humans eating
real food because the rat and mice chow used is a highly artificial
concoction straight from Macro-Nutrient Land. The chow used in Ross's rat
studies consisted of 22 percent casein, 6 percent corn oil and 59 percent
sucrose! Thus, calorie restriction in these studies means restriction of
isolated protein (produced at high temperatures that produce carcinogens),
vegetable oil (invariably rancid) and refined sugar (completely devoid of
nutrients and a stress on any living system). If this research has anything
to teach us, it is that the calories humans of every age should restrict
are the empty calories of white flour and sugar in processed foods; instead
we are being urged, over and over again, to cut back on fats.
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The above is an extract from :
http://www.westonaprice.org/nutrition_guidelines/macronutrientland.html
section: YOU ARE OLD, FATHER WILLIAM
John Holman
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