To live a long time do not need to diet and sport

If you want to live longer, you should give up the diet and going to the gym. Leading British scientist believes that this need only just eat less.

More recently, the Institute of Healthy Ageing at University College London found that a reduction of the usual daily diet of 40% can extend medium lifespan human 20 years. With this agreement, the renowned British scientist Dr Michael Mosley, a leading research program on Horizon Air. He said that the risk factor for early death of a man is a high metabolism - an indicator of how much energy the body uses for its normal operation.

Nutritionists and supporters of a healthy lifestyle provide numerous tips on how to use the various diets and exercise to speed up the metabolism, that is, the actual calorie burning in the body. They rightly believe that in this way you can fight weight gain. And Dr. Mosley believes that there is much easier way - to reduce the number of calories.

He cites the example of a closed community in the United States and Japan, where the followers of the ascetic sitting on 600-800 calories a day. And health, and   lifespan These people are much better than the average of the countries of their residence. That's why food restriction, according to the scientist, will only benefit.

"After all, aging is a product of a high metabolic rate, which increases the amount of free radicals in our body - the doctor says Mosley. - If you cause stress on the body by subjecting it to starvation, it will lead to its restructuring and adaptation of metabolism. Before We will be a classic illustration of the proverb: whatever does not kill us makes us stronger. "

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