The majority of mice in studies are inbred. Some of them are bred to be fatter than others. We're not looking at wild type rats, and we're not giving them the foods they would eat in nature. Those are not healthy individuals in any way, shape, or form. Anyone that sells the calorie trial as showing that caloric restriction has benefits in healthy individuals hasn't read the paper carefully enough.

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