Re: Re: What is it the most important to restrict?

[Guest guest]

Tony: The fat they're talking about is how much a person weighs

(regardless of what they ate to get there). And just to confuse things,

there's far from unanimous agreement as to whether weight/telomer shortening

shortens life as mentioned at the end:

" Rudolph L. Leibel of Columbia University said the findings were

provocative but did not necessarily mean people who are overweight, or

have short telomeres, are destined to die young. "

" It may be that in a biological sense the aging process is accelerated

in these individuals, but that in and of itself doesn't necessarily

permit you to predict what the outcome will be, " he said. " Maybe the

telomere shortening is comparable to gray hair. Somebody who has gray

hair is more likely to be older, but it doesn't cause aging. "

So I think Rodney's jury as to whether it's eating fat or protein that may

shorten the life of lower animals (and remember humans often turn out to be

different) is still out........

on 6/14/2005 8:26 AM, citpeks at citpeks@... wrote:

> It may turn out that, for longevity, it is more important to restrict

> FAT according to the following Washington Post story.

>

> Tony

>

> =======

> Fat Found to Accelerate Aging Process

> Obesity Adds Equivalent of Nine Years to Appearance of Cells, Study

> Says

[Guest guest]

Gay: you can search the archives for previous discussion on this subject.

Or search Pubmed.

on 6/14/2005 1:29 PM, Gay e at @... wrote:

> Hi Rodney/Francesca

>

> Do you have any more to say on the subject of inflammation?

>

> Gay