Caloric restriction diet doesn’t work

Reports this week that a "nutritious but reduced-calorie diet blunts aging and significantly delays the onset of such age-related disorders as cancer…" are a perverse account of a study that showed no statistically significant effect of calorie restriction.

Sandy Szwarc shows that the supposed benefits appear only if the results are cooked by 'cherry picking' the trial's mortality records. She also summarizes the weight of evidence that calorie restriction 'life extension' is vodoo (or possibly a commercial venture in this case)

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