Podcasts: Calorie Restriction

Interview with Matthew Chapman; News Items: Dust and Snow on Mars, PETA Nonsense, Calorie Restriction Diet; Your Questions and E-mails: LHC Update, Correlation and Causation, Emergent Intelligence, Neanderthal DNA; Science or Fiction.The Skeptics' Guide To The Universe - Your Escape to Reality.

A study in the journal Nature finds that worms that fasted every third day got the same anti-aging benefits offered by severe calorie-restricted diets.Worms that fasted every third day, boosted their lifespan by 50 percent, and showed fewer signs of physical decline than their peers.