Decades of research has shown that limits on calorie intake by flies, worms, and mice can enhance life span in laboratory conditions. But whether such calorie restriction can do the same for humans ...

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 ...

In the early 1950s, experiments by two teams of researchers, Salvador Luria working with Mary Human and Joe Bertani working with Jean Weigle, showed that some strains of bacteria were more resistant ...

Intermittent fasting encompasses a few approaches to food: eating during only certain hours of the day, refraining completely on certain days, or drastically reducing calories on a few days of the ...

A new study has investigated the biological mechanisms brought about by calorie restriction and found that a moderate reduction in calorie intake can improve muscle health and activate biological ...

Fetal growth restriction is when a fetus doesn’t grow as well as it should. Fetal growth restriction is also known as intrauterine growth restriction. Babies with fetal growth restriction are below ...