Photo: catsper, Flickr If you've ever tried cutting calories, you know how important calories are. As it turns out, cutting calories isn't only good for your waistline, it could also slow aging. So says a ...

Brian M. Delaney, president of the Calorie Restriction Society and co-author of "The Longevity Diet" Photo: Michael Fusco Why calorie restriction? Brian M. Delaney, co-author of "The Longevity Diet" and ...

Every morning I turn on the television just in time to hear Willard Scott from NBC's "Today Show" attempt to pronounce the names of America's centenarians. Whenever I see the ages next to the faces on that rotating jar of Smuckers, I can't help but ...

I've talked to a few nutritionists lately who insist that longer lifespans and overall healthier lives can be had by restricting overall caloric intake. Since eating is a social and mental undertaking that happens to manifest itself in physical ...

I've read and read about the daily ritual of caloric restriction and have been fascinated by what I read. In the case of many people with an ultra-conscious habit about monitoring what they eat, the reduction of calories (but not nutrients) is ...

Most of us have followed restricted-calorie diets at some point in our lives, but they tend to last, oh, two or three weeks until we give up on them because we are just too dang hungry. But Brit David Fisher has been counting calories for 20 years ...

I've never taken health information from a worm. After reading this article, I'm not going to start. Research has shown that "calorie restriction" diets -- where subjects consume far fewer calories than their body needs, but choose foods carefully so ...

I am so tired of fad diets. Ever since my mom brought home a box of the ill-named AYDS candies in the early 80's I've always been suspicious of fad diets. They never seem to work. Ever. Or, if they do, it's for the short term only. So why do folks ...