Caloric Restriction

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

Key Facts

Abbreviation
CR
Pronunciation
/kæˈlɔrɪk riˈstrɪkʃən/
Category
Medical
Related Field
British Medicine

Examples in Context

  1. For example, fasting and extreme caloric restriction diets can markedly decrease lean body weight and body hydration.
  2. Caloric restriction also has favourable effects on our health and delays the development of age-related diseases.
  3. Enticing research also comes from studies of caloric restriction.
  4. Researchers studying caloric restriction in micehave become accustomed to mixed results, which they attribute to geneticdiversity among strains.
  5. The results suggest that even short-term caloric restriction can produce beneficial physiological changes leading to improved health.

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