Rustum Roy, founding director of the Materials Research Laboratory and chairman for the June conference, has joined forces with Dr. Andrew Weil, director of a program in integrative medicine at the University of Arizona, Tucson, to form an organization to evaluate a variety of therapies, including qigong. If something is bogus there, it'll come out. Some scientific studies that have found health benefits in calorie restriction. At the University of Wisconsin, experiments with mice showed rodents that ate less lived longer, and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, studies of yeast metabolism, which is similar to animal metabolism, found that yeast on a low-calorie diet lived longer. In a long-term study at the National Institute of Aging, researchers have found that rhesus monkeys fed 30 percent fewer calories than normal developed metabolic patterns indicating the animals would be more resistant to diabetes and heart disease.
Researchers caution that any such diet requires careful attention to necessary nutrients.
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