Cut calories, live longer!

If you want to live longer cut your calories, this is what a new research says.

American scientists who carried out research on India's very own rhesus monkey have come up with the latest findings.

A 20-year study on rhesus monkeys housed in Wisconsin, US suggests that substantially reducing caloric intake slows the aging process and leads to longer life spans in primates.

The researchers report that a 30 per cent reduction in calories can lead to such health benefits in some mammals, but given the many parallels between rhesus monkeys and humans, this study suggests that these benefits might occur in humans as well.

This study has been reported in the latest issue of the prestigious journal Science and it indicates that caloric restriction in adulthood can delay the onset of age-associated problems at least in rhesus monkeys.

Can there be a better reason to start shedding weight!