Very Recent Article in 'Scence' Journal

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Hi Guys: I am new here. First post. Lots of interesting stuff

being discussed I see. But I did not see mentioned the

article " Demography of Dietary Restriction and Death in Drosophila "

in the 19 September 2003 issue of SCIENCE. Absolutely relevant to

this group. To cut a long story short it proves that, at least in

fruit flies (drosophila), when previously fully fed flies are placed

on 40% calorie restriction only at the equivalent of human age of

about 60, they thereafter gain the FULL benefits of it. The evidence

is best demonstrated in the first diagram in the article which shows

that two days after going on calorie restriction the mortality rate

of 'sixty year old' flies is indistinguishable from that of fies that

have been calorie-restricted from early in life. The unrestricted

flies, of course, die off 'like flies' (Sorry for that rather poor

pun).