Word: restrictionism
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After The Game in 2000, then-Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 imposed a ban on kegs at all future Harvard-Yale football games, a restriction upheld by a unanimous vote by House Masters for the last game held at Harvard Stadium, in 2002. University...
According to a letter from the University to Herms’ attorney which Herms gave to The Crimson last March, his official restriction from Harvard property came after a number of individual incidents.
So Sinclair put himself on the same sort of severe diet that members of the tiny but highly motivated Calorie Restriction Society follow. He lasted a week. "It was too tough," he says. "My hat's off to the calorie restricters. Now I'm hoping to find drugs that can...
At the University of Wisconsin at Madison, gerontologist Richard Weindruch studies deprivation, like Sinclair, but has a different idea about why calorie restriction works. He has been comparing calorie-restricted rhesus monkeys with unrestricted ones and has found striking differences. The CR monkeys have shown no evidence of diabetes, for...
Calorie restriction has its downside, though, and it's not just hunger. Weindruch's monkeys experience changes in bone density, and other labs have reported changes in libido, menstrual cycles and body temperature in calorie-restricted monkeys. And Sinclair's worms and flies suffer from loss of appetite and fertility...