A Look at “Breaking the Aging Code”

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The LEF News is carrying an overview of Breaking the Aging Code, a book probably best described as an attempt at a care and maintenance guide for the human body. Lifestyle and dietary choices do make an enormous difference to healthy life span, but only calorie restriction has been proven to extend it. These other maintenance tricks of the trade, while useful and good for your health, are preventing damage that would otherwise cut into your natural healthy life span. As for cars, good maintenance only gets you so far - more and better medical technologies are needed for true healthy life extension.

Link: http://newsite.lef.org/news/aging/2004/02/09/eng-healthnewsdigest/eng-healthnewsdigest_083315_2722933232783122805.html