Science Backing Up Common Sense
At Newswise, you'll find more science backing up common sense practices for long term health: calorie restriction and exercise. "Dieting alone is equally effective at reducing weight and fat as a combination of diet and exercise - as long as the calories consumed and burned equal out. The research also indicates that the addition of exercise to a weight-loss regimen does not change body composition and abdominal fat distribution, debunking the idea that specific exercises can reduce fat in targeted areas ... It's all about the calories. So long as the energy deficit is the same, body weight, fat weight, and abdominal fat will all decrease in the same way." But exercise and calorie restriction do not have the same results on long-term health, even through they both reduce the excess fat that is a risk for many age-related conditions. "Exercise improved aerobic fitness, which has other important cardiovascular and metabolic implications." And calorie restriction has benefits in terms of resisting age-related disease that exercise does not. "For overall health, an appropriate program of diet and exercise is still the best." You're going to have wait out the arrival of real, working rejuvenation medicine - so why shorten your healthy life through neglect of the basics?