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In 2006, readers of the New York Times were treated to photographs of Canto and Owen.
Canto had been following a version of the supposedly life extendingcalorie-restricting diet. He looked youthful and alert and healthy. Owen had been eating a reasonably healthy, traditional diet. He looked fat and run-down.
Canto and Owen were the same age. They were also monkeys.
But extreme calorie-restriction has now been shown to confer health and life-extension to yeast cells, spiders, vinegar worms and mice too. For some people, calorie restriction is just a sure fire way to lose weight and feel better -- although there are some risks if you lose weight too fast. But for others, the idea is permanently linked to transhumanism -- the theory that technological advances sitting out there in the near future could make us all into 6 million dollar men and women who live many extra decades.
Now, if we can just live long enough to see those advances. So have a little barley. Very little.
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