Our calorie intake reflects significantly on our body. Researchers said that consuming low-calorie food may have a protective effect against some diseases as the number of calories a person eats directly influences the performance of various cells.

 The study on mice showed that a low-calorie diet can protect the brain from neuronal cell death associated with diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, epilepsy and cerebral vascular accident (CVA).

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Co-author Alicia Kowaltowski, Professor at the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil, said,  "We are looking at how changes to the diet affect metabolism and how that ends up changing the odds of having diseases associated with ageing.

Researchers calculated the average number of calories the group with no caloric restrictions would eat and then fed the other group 40 per cent fewer calories. After 14 weeks, mice belonging to the two groups were given an injection containing a substance known to cause seizures, damage and neuronal cell death. 

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In the research it also found that those who had no dietary restrictions had seizures, those whose calories were restricted did not.