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Dietary Factors Modulating the Rate of Aging

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There is general agreement that diet has important implications for health and susceptibility to disease, but there is little direct evidence that dietary factors alter the progress of aging per se. One difficulty is that it is not easy to distinguish changes due to “true aging” from changes associated with age-related disease. There are numerous theories of aging (Warner et al. 1987), many of which are not mutually exclusive, but share common elements. However, it seems clear that the longevity of an individual within a population depends on his/her genetic constitution and environmental experience. Thus, one can ask how dietary factors might modulate agerelated changes in gene expression and/or macromolecular damage due to environmental insults, both of which presumably determine the rate of aging of any particular individual of a species.

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Warner, H.R., Kim, S.K. (1994). Dietary Factors Modulating the Rate of Aging. In: Goldberg, I. (eds) Functional Foods. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2073-3_6

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