2008年职称英语阅读理解习题（三）.docVIP

2008年职称英语阅读理解习题（三） Eat to Live A meager diet may give you health and long life, but its not much fun—and it might not even be necessary. We may be able to hang on to most of that youthful vigor even if we dont start to diet until old age. Stephen Spindler and his colleagues from the University of California at Riverside have found that some of an elderly mouses liver genes can be made to behave as they did when the mouse was young simply by limiting its food for four weeks. The genetic rejuvenation wont reverse other damage caused by time for the mouse, but could help its liver metabolize drug