Starve yourself older? Go Stone Age for Old Age? Can these extreme diets extend your life?

How far would you go to live longer? Would you go fruitarian, where your diet is 100% fruit? How about the paleo diet, eating only the foods hunted, fished or gathered in Palaeolithic times? Or perhaps you’d prefer a near-starvation regime?
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Food writer Giles Coren tries three extreme diets to figure out what’s best – a longer life lived wisely or a shorter life that includes cake.
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