Caption: A pioneering long-term study of the links between diet and aging in monkeys will continue through 2011 with the help of a new $7.9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The study, led by Professor Richard Weindruch at the School of Medicine and Public Health at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and first initiated at the National Primate Research Center at UW-Madison in 1989, examines the effects of a reduced-calorie diet on the aging process and health of 76 rhesus monkeys. Pictured from the study sitting in animal cages are, left to right, rhesus monkeys Canto, on a restricted diet, and Owen, a control subject on an unrestricted diet.
Photo by: Jeff Miller
Date: June 2006
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