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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><h1 style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";font-weight:normal'>Severe Diet Doesn’t Prolong Life, at Least in Monkeys<o:p></o:p></span></h1><h6 style='mso-margin-top-alt:1.5pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:1.5pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:14.4pt'><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:gray'>By <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/k/gina_kolata/index.html" title="More Articles by GINA KOLATA">GINA KOLATA</a><o:p></o:p></span></h6><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:17.6pt'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:17.6pt'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black'>>…For 25 years, the rhesus monkeys were kept semi-starved, lean and hungry. The males’ weights were so low they were the equivalent of a 6-foot-tall man who tipped the scales at just 120 to 133 pounds. The hope was that if the monkeys lived longer, healthier lives by eating a lot less, then maybe people, their evolutionary cousins, would, too. Some scientists, anticipating such benefits, began severely restricting their own diets… <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/30/science/low-calorie-diet-doesnt-prolong-life-study-of-monkeys-finds.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1346426271-s1lPqKQHeUeoVHGYFUtjGw">http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/30/science/low-calorie-diet-doesnt-prolong-life-study-of-monkeys-finds.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1346426271-s1lPqKQHeUeoVHGYFUtjGw</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>This study really caught my attention because of the second sentence. I am a six-ft tall man and my weight is right in the middle of the range they give to describe the monkeys they kept “semi-starved, lean and hungry.” On a side note, the window of opportunity to replicate these tests may be closing. Animal rights activists may eventually shut down all such efforts.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike <o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>