An expert on the benefits of caloric restriction will be the guest speaker at the Denham Harman, M.D., Ph.D., Lectureship in Biomedical Gerontology on April 1.
About the lecture
The Denham Harman, M.D., Ph.D., Lectureship in Biomedical Gerontology lecture was established in 2002 by the University of Nebraska Foundation in honor of Dr. Harman, Emeritus Millard Professor of Medicine at UNMC, who is known internationally as the father of the Free Radical Theory of Aging.
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Speaker: John Holloszy, M.D., professor of medicine and director of the section of applied physiology in the Division of Geriatrics and Nutritional Sciences at the Washington University School of Medicine (WUSM), will address the benefits of long term calorie restriction — eating less food with a high caloric content such as bakery goods, ice cream or other high calorie deserts and meats with high fat content.
When: Friday, April 1 at noon
Where: Durham Research Center Auditorium
Who: All are invited. Lunch will be provided for the first 250 attendees.
More online: Learn more about calorie restriction at http://www.calorierestriction.org or http://www.nutribase.com/crsociety.shtml.