UAB Studies Calorie Restriction at Cellular Level (VIDEO)

University of Alabama at Birmingham

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Researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) have discovered that restricting consumption of glucose, the most common dietary sugar, can extend the life of healthy human-lung cells and speed the death of precancerous human-lung cells.

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Jamie Cottle/UAB

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