Food and health longevity.

Calorie Restriction, Longevity and Cognitive Function

Religious Fasting; the Purgation of Soul and Body

Introduction: Nearly one billion adult Muslims across the world refrain from eating, drinking, and smoking from dawn until dusk during the holy month of Ramadan. The duration of Islamic fasting varies depending on the coinciding season and geographical location. The present study aimed to review the health benefits of Islamic fasting. Methods: This review was c...

Sociocultural Considerations in Data Collection and Interpretation

This essay suggests additional sociocultural considerations that might improve data collection and analysis. The IUNS initiative on food habits and the elderly offers a theoretical and methodological framework to relate nutritional and non-nutritional factors to health outcomes and longevity. The research is designed to test hypotheses about the relationships between diet and disease; and migra...

On the rationality of eating junk food

Rational junk-food consumption is analyzed within an expected lifetime utility maximizing framework in which longevity and productivity rise with health, and health deteriorates with junk-food consumption. As long as the junk food’s relative taste-price differential is positive, the consumer’s rational diet deviates from the physiologically optimal one and generates lower than maximal levels of...

Transgenerational Inheritance of Longevity: An Epigenetic Phenomenon?

Copyright: © 2013 Vaiserman AM . This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Over the past decade, there is substantive evidence that adverse consequences of early-life environmental stresses, such as chem...

Effect of stress due to food deprivation, social inequality and instability on brain

Introduction: Several reports show a relationship between health equity, and health status and longevity of individuals. In this study, effects of food deprivation, inequality and social instability were investigated on the formation of lipofuscin pigment in Balb/C mice by histopathological and biochemical methods. Methods: Thirty-six male mice were divided into 6 groups, then different kind...