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The Role of Nutrition in Human Aging

  • W. O. Caster
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Abstract

Over 40 years ago McCay et al. (1935, 1939) excited the imagination of nutritionists and gerontologists with reports that when the diet of the weanling rat was restricted by 30%–60%, the rat would grow correspondingly smaller but that its life span was lengthened two-fold. Some work on food restriction still persists, but much of the zeal departed when it was found that these long-lived rats were apathetic and slow to mature, had a low metabolism and body temperature, had a low resistance to stress or infection, and showed decrements in intellectual and neurological performance.

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Coronary Heart Disease Saturated Fatty Acid Human Aging Serum Cholesterol Level Crude Fiber 
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