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1. -07-10-09 Dieting Monkeys Offer Hope for Longevity (New York Times)
   "A long-awaited study of aging in rhesus monkeys suggests, with some reservations, that people could in principle fend off the usual diseases of old age and considerably extend their life span by following a special diet."
   
   "Known as caloric restriction, the diet has all the normal healthy ingredients but contains 30 percent fewer calories than usual." 07-09

2. -04-15-07 Study: Diets Don't Work (CBS News)
   "A new study published in the April issue of the journal "American Psychologist" finds that for most people, dieting just doesn't work."
   
   "Why should we believe the findings of this survey? Won't another study come out in a few months that debunks this one?"
   
   Samantha Heller, a nutritionist with Health magazine: " 'Probably not. If 'dieting' worked then obesity would not be at epidemic levels in this country and now around the world.' " 04-07

3. Women May Have More Difficulty Than Men in Hunger Control (CBS News)
   "Hungry women can't control their desire for food as well as hungry men can, a brain imaging study suggests."
   
   "The finding may explain why women are more prone to emotional eating and why women are less likely than men to lose weight while dieting."
   
   " 'Women have a much stronger reaction to food, such that whether they try to inhibit their desire or not, they have stronger signal [in the part of the brain that controls hunger perception and desire to eat],' study leader Gene-Jack Wang, MD, tells WebMD." 01-09

4. -07-09-09 Low-Calorie Diet Slows Aging in Monkeys (MSNBC News)
   "So far, 37 percent of the monkeys who kept their regular diet have died of age-related diseases — compared with just 13 percent of the calorie-cut monkeys, a nearly three-fold difference, the researchers reported. A handful of other monkeys died of unrelated conditions, such as injury, not deemed affected by nutrition."
   
   "Death was not the only change. The calorie-cut monkeys had less than half the incidence of cancerous tumors or heart disease as the monkeys who ate normally. Brain scans showed less age-related shrinkage in the dieting monkeys. They also retained more muscle, something else that tends to waste with age." 07-09

5. How the Body Ages (MSNBC News)
   "So far, 37 percent of the monkeys who kept their regular diet have died of age-related diseases — compared with just 13 percent of the calorie-cut monkeys, a nearly three-fold difference, the researchers reported. A handful of other monkeys died of unrelated conditions, such as injury, not deemed affected by nutrition."
   
   "Death was not the only change. The calorie-cut monkeys had less than half the incidence of cancerous tumors or heart disease as the monkeys who ate normally. Brain scans showed less age-related shrinkage in the dieting monkeys. They also retained more muscle, something else that tends to waste with age." 07-09

6. Japan Seeks Trim Waists (New York Times)
   "Japan, a country not known for its overweight people, has undertaken one of the most ambitious campaigns ever by a nation to slim down its citizenry."
   
   "Those exceeding government limits — 33.5 inches for men and 35.4 inches for women, which are identical to thresholds established in 2005 for Japan by the International Diabetes Federation as an easy guideline for identifying health risks — and having a weight-related ailment will be given dieting guidance if after three months they do not lose weight. If necessary, those people will be steered toward further re-education after six more months." 04-09