Laboratory studies have shown consistently that animals eating less food, or eating less often, can live longer. But scientists have struggled to understand why these kinds of restrictive diets work ...

Your activity level, age, height, quality of sleep, and weight all affect the exact number of calories you need. That said, ...

A 30% calorie reduction over decades slows brain aging in monkeys by preserving microglia and oligodendrocytes, new research ...

Nutra, the science-driven company behind ProLon, explain why chronic calorie restriction often backfires — and how time-bound ...

Research suggests that while cutting calories might help you lose weight and reduce risk of disease, it also carries health risks. Living comes with a side effect: aging. Despite what you might hear ...

The secret to living a long and healthy life? Don’t eat that much. For years, longevity researchers have conducted studies that seem to show restricting calories might help people live longer. “We’ve ...

Intermittent fasting has its benefits but effectively extending the lifespan of living beings might not be one of them, according to a recent Nature study. Instead, the mouse study revealed that ...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Penn State researchers may have uncovered another layer of complexity in the mystery of how diet impacts aging. A new study led by researchers in the Penn State College of ...

A form of very low-calorie fasting-mimicking diet may help alleviate symptoms of mild-to-moderate Crohn's disease.

Decades ago, in the 1930s, researchers working with lab rats made an interesting discovery. Animals that had been deprived of food seemed to live longer than rodents that were fed to satisfaction, ...

Long held up as the big benchmark of nutrition, the calorie is losing its clout in the age of GLP-1s and a sharper focus on nutrients.

Cutting calories has long been linked to longer life in lab animals, but scientists are now tracing that effect down to the ...