Diet ‘Far More Powerful’ Than Drugs in Preventing Ageing, Metabolic Diseases: Study

If you want to add more vigor to your life and even extend your "expiration date," you have to maintain a healthy body weight. Marilyn Barbone/Shutterstock

The makeup of our diet has a much stronger impact on ageing and metabolic health than drugs, a new study has found.

A pre-clinical study by the University of Sydney’s Charles Perkins Centre has suggested that nutrition, including overall calories and macronutrient balance, can better protect the body against ageing, obesity, heart disease, immune dysfunction, and risk of metabolic diseases than anti-ageing drugs.