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Ask a lottery winner how you can get rich and they'll tell you to buy lottery tickets.

• chiliap2 10y ago
  Still, if it's a process as poorly understood as dying of old age, saying "made me wonder if any of her longevity can be credited to having a severely calorie restricted diet" seems like a reasonable response.
  • paulcole 10y ago
    I actually wondered if it had to do with eating an odd number of foods (3 eggs). Seems like it worked for her!
    • brocasso 10y ago
      Some research on worms, mice, and monkeys has pointed at caloric restriction and/or a carb-free diets helping with longevity. If I recall correctly, these two strategies help with insulin sensitivity and other hormones that are known to serve as regulators in certain DNA repair pathways. I think posters above are not supposing that caloric restriction could have helped at random. Rather, they have read about it helping with longevity -- unlike odd numbers of food. Thanks for your comment.