Gluttony is a word that isn’t used very often. Many people don’t know what gluttony means. Gluttony is the attitude, focus, and disposition that lead a person to eat too much food.

The glutton is a person who eats too much at meal time and is often found eating between meals. If the taste buds call, the glutton is quick to answer with a snack.

In the 1930s, a Cornell University professor of nutrition, Dr. Clive McCay, confirmed that caloric restriction in rodents extends life expectancy by up to 50%--the equivalent of 150 years in humans!(1) This kind of experiment has now been repeated across many species with similar results. Current studies at the National Institute on Aging show the same early adaptations in primates on low-calorie diets as other species. Eating less seems to generate fewer free radicals, thus lessening potential damage to cellular machinery like DNA and mitochondria.