In a two-year Duke University study, participants assigned to reduce calories by 25% achieved an average reduction of 12%, and their biological age increased by 0.11 years per year, compared with 0.71 years per year among people eating their usual diets.
Sources
- Low Calorie Diets and Longer Lives (healthline.com)
- https://corporate.dukehealth.org/news/study-analysis-shows-cutting-calories-might-slow-biological-aging (corporate.dukehealth.org)
- https://academic.oup.com/biomedgerontology/article/73/1/4/3834057 (academic.oup.com)
- https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5861848/ (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
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