Healthy diet may reverse aging

http://www.today.com/health/healthy-diet-may-reverse-aging-study-finds-4B11175619


Maggie Fox NBC News
Sept. 16, 2013

A program of healthy eating, exercise and stress reduction can not only reverse some diseases -- it may actually slow down the aging process at the genetic level, researchers reported Monday.

The lifestyle changes affected the telomeres -- little caps on the end of the chromosomes that carry the DNA, the team at the University of California, San Francisco report.

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The program includes eating a diet high in whole foods, fruits, vegetables, unrefined grains and keeping fat to 10 percent of calories. The average American gets more than a third of calories from fat.

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