Healthy Diet Is Linked With a Slower Pace of Aging, Reduced Dementia Risk
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Researchers Seek to Answer a Fundamental Question: What Is Health?
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THE HINDU Geroscience: The Science Related to Aging
U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT Eating Healthy Slows 'Aging Clock,' Helping to Shield Your Brain From Dementia
WALL STREET JOURNAL What Is My Biological Age? I Took These Tests to Find Out
FORBES You Can Slow Down Your Biological Clock By Staying In School, Study Finds
The New York Times SCIENCE TIMESWhat’s Your ‘Biological Age’?
THE WASHINGTON POST Cut Calories and (Maybe) Add Years to Your Life - The Washington Post
February 18, 2023— Researchers seem to have discovered a fountain of youth, but it’s a tough sell: eating far fewer calories. This has more to do with the benefits of not over-fueling your cells.
What this study focused on was rate of aging, said epidemiologist and study co-author Daniel Belsky of the Columbia School of Public Health. They saw signs that the calorie cutters’ cells were aging a tiny bit more slowly. It was a small difference overall, but might add up to something meaningful if the subjects kept at it. Das, of Tufts, said she’s working on a follow-up study to see whether the subjects sustained the new eating patterns and how that affected them.
THE SCIENTIST Your Partner's Genome May Affect Your Health(link is external and opens in a new window)
Jan 5, 2021— While it’s hard to draw conclusions about individual traits from this kind of broad analysis, the team’s study represents a proof of concept that indirect genetic effects may be important in humans, says Daniel Belsky, an epidemiologist at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health who was not involved in the work. He calls it a “creative application of a large and powerful database to address an important and open question in behavioral genetics.” Belsky adds that while the results “seem broadly sensible,” there remain some questions for future studies regarding the extent to which indirect genetic effects can be distinguished from assortative mating. “The design that [the authors] use is quite strong in controlling for assortment on the trait under analysis,” he notes, but it’s less effective “for controlling for assortment on traits that are genetically correlated with the trait under analysis but which may not be measured.”
