Calorie Restriction and Increased Life Span Reading Analysis
n Ch. 2, you read about calorie restriction and increased life span. Related to calorie restriction is the issue of weight loss and its effects on the body in older age. The article below describes a study on bone loss as a function of weight loss due to calorie restrictions vs. exercise. Read the article and answer the questions below:
1) What was the hypothesis of the study?
Describe, in your own words what the researchers were trying to achieve in their study. What did they seek to understand? Provide detail to fully explain the aim of the study. Be sure to write out any acronyms in full.
2) What were the three groups in the study?
Consider: Who were the participants in this research? How old were they? What groups were they in?
3) What were the major results of the study?
What specific conclusions can be drawn from the data? What are the implications of the study findings?