{"id":1888,"date":"2012-12-05T13:00:21","date_gmt":"2012-12-05T17:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=1888"},"modified":"2013-08-29T21:49:11","modified_gmt":"2013-08-30T01:49:11","slug":"analects-of-the-core-171-life-ascending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2012\/12\/05\/analects-of-the-core-171-life-ascending\/","title":{"rendered":"Analects of the Core: Lane on hunger prolonging life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Expanding further on the works studied in CC106, here is the next analect from Nick Lane&#8217;s <em>Life Ascending: The Great Inventions of Evolution:<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We may not enjoy the fact much, but we&#8217;ve recognized since the early 1920&#8217;s that going moderately hungry prolongs life. It&#8217;s called calorie restriction. Rats fed a balanced diet, but with about 40 per cent fewer calories than normal, live half as long again as their well-nourished siblings, and suffer fewer diseases of old age.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Expanding further on the works studied in CC106, here is the next analect from Nick Lane&#8217;s Life Ascending: The Great Inventions of Evolution: We may not enjoy the fact much, but we&#8217;ve recognized since the early 1920&#8217;s that going moderately hungry prolongs life. It&#8217;s called calorie restriction. Rats fed a balanced diet, but with about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3740,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3691,2534,4151,1],"tags":[3890,1476,2277,37414,425,37415],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1888"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3740"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1888"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3136,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1888\/revisions\/3136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}