The Western Diet Is Not Enough, Right?

In anything from fruit flies to mice to resus monkeys, when you restrict calories most of the time, you appear to increase longevity. But is that effect coming due to the reduction in the number of calories, or is it coming as a result of a reduction in a subset of the type of calory? And if so, could you get the same benefit without restricting calories and just restricting that agent,. or is it the aggregate? Now, i'll tell you why i believe the answer is that it's a specific set of macronutrients and not, um, theNumber of calories.

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