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Published online 5 September 2001 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news010906-8

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Live, fast, die old

Cutting calories quickly alters genes.

It's never too late to diet. Cutting calories for only a few weeks late in life causes anti-aging changes in mouse genes.

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