Calorie restriction is bad for the brain

Many dietary recommendations that can be heard in these days, are reduced to in order to reduce the consumption of high-calorie food. But American experts from the National Institute of Gerontology concluded that the reduction in caloric intake is not the best way affects the state of the brain.

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In particular, the researchers said that as a result of lowering caloric intake brain is experiencing stress. Also, the state of stress can experience the whole body whole. About his study, doctors have told in the pages of the scientific journal Lancet.

Experts have found that a diet restricted in calories or fasting can become catalysts of subconscious mental processes in the brain. Such activity of the brain, is usually associated with emotions, fixing on any idea or concern, they believe. The brain needs fat. Despite the fact that the primary nutrient for this body is glucose, brain 1/6 part consists of cholesterol. Without the absorption of fat is not possible of important vitamins, experts remind.

Earlier, two Californian biologist John Phelan and Michael Rose calculated the effect of food restriction on lifespan. Summed up, they reported that restricting calories only indirectly affects life expectancy.

"Even if you restrict food intake with the birth and my whole life - it lengthens a person no more than 7%, while the fasting mice gave an impressive 150-percent effect" - then spoke Phelan and Rose.

  According to them, people reduce their usual calorie intake by a third in the hope to live to 120 or even 150 years - will not see such a strong effect. (READ MORE)

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