This is the first study to demonstrate that long-term calorie restriction with optimal nutrition has cardiac-specific effects that (delay or reverse) age-associated declines in heart function.

Dr. Luigi Fontana

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This paper is important because it is the first study in humans that strongly suggests that calorie restriction may delay primary aging.

— Dr. Luigi Fontana

This is the first study to demonstrate that long-term calorie restriction with optimal nutrition has cardiac-specific effects that ameliorate age-associated declines in heart function.

— Luigi Fontana

We know people on calorie restriction will lose weight. But this study isn't a weight-loss study. We're hoping to learn more about whether calorie restriction can alter the aging process.

— Dr. Luigi Fontana

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We know people on calorie restriction will lose weight. But this study isn't a weight-loss study. We're hoping to learn more about whether calorie restriction can alter the aging process.

— Luigi Fontana

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If you put animals on a 30- or 40-percent calorie-restricted diet, they live 30 to 40 percent longer, and they have much less chronic disease.

— Dr. Luigi Fontana