We're suckers here on the blog for studies involving mice, and this one from the University of Southern California, published in The Journal of Nutrition, caught our eye.
It seems the practice known as "caloric restriction" -- a growing movement that posits that you'll live longer if you severely restrict your food intake -- doesn't extend life, at least in our rodent friends.
Check that: Caloric restriction works in obese mice, but not lean ones. The study's author, Raj Sohal, professor at the University of Southern California's School of Pharmacy, says it can be a dangerous practice for humans. (You know how they are in SoCal, never too rich or too thin.)
Says Sohal in a statement: ""Today there are a lot of very healthy people who look like skeletons because they bought into this (caloric restriction philosophy."
Read the entire study here.
