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Caloric Restriction, the Traditional Okinawan Diet, and Healthy Aging: The Diet of the World's Longest‐Lived People and Its Potential Impact on Morbidity and Life Span

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Long-term caloric restriction (CR) is a robust means of reducing age-related diseases and extending life span in multiple species, but the effects in humans are unknown. The low caloric intake, long life expectancy, and the high prevalence of centenarians in Okinawa have been used as an argument to support the CR hypothesis in humans. However, no long-term, epidemiologic analysis has been conducted on traditional dietary patterns, energy balance, and potential CR phenotypes for the specific cohort of Okinawans who are purported to have had a calorically restricted diet. Nor has this cohort's subsequent mortality experience been rigorously studied. Therefore, we investigated six decades of archived population data on the elderly cohort of Okinawans (aged 65-plus) for evidence of CR. Analyses included traditional diet composition, energy intake, energy expenditure, anthropometry, plasma DHEA, mortality from age-related diseases, and current survival patterns. Findings include low caloric intake and negative energy balance at younger ages, little weight gain with age, life-long low BMI, relatively high plasma DHEA levels at older ages, low risk for mortality from age-related diseases, and survival patterns consistent with extended mean and maximum life span. This study lends epidemiologic support for phenotypic benefits of CR in humans and is consistent with the well-known literature on animals with regard to CR phenotypes and healthy aging.

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Authors
WILLCOX, B. J., WILLCOX, D. C., TODORIKI, H., FUJIYOSHI, A., YANO, K., HE, Q., CURB, J. D., & SUZUKI, M.
Affiliations
  • University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (US)
  • Okinawa Prefectural College of Nursing (JP)
  • University of the Ryukyus (JP)
  • Pacific Health Research and Education Institute (US)
Corresponding author
  • WILLCOX, BRADLEY J.
  • WILLCOX, D. CRAIG
Venue
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
Publisher
Wiley
Published
2007-10
Volume
1114
Issue
1
Pages
434-455
ISSN
  • 0077-8923 (ISSN-L)
  • 1749-6632
OpenAlex
W2165781101
Cited by
370
References
61
Citations by year
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FWCI
2.87
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
  • National Institutes of Health (1r03ag021293-01)
  • National Institute on Aging (K08AG022788, R03AG021293-01, K08 AG22788-02, R01AG027060)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Aging › Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology (medical) › Dietary Effects on Health
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Nutrition and Health Studies
Keywords
caloric restriction, Okinawan diet, healthy aging, centenarians, energy balance, lifespan extension, energy intake, energy expenditure, body mass index, survival patterns
MeSH terms
Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Aging, Animals, Haplorhini, Diet, Female, Humans, Japan, Life Expectancy, Male, Middle Aged, Morbidity, United States, Caloric Restriction

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