How To Live Longer For Free

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How To Live Longer For Free

- Roger Mason

How would you not only like to live longer, but to feel better, be healthier, have less illness and a higher immunity? What would you pay for such a priceless blessing? What would this be worth to you to stay on this earth years longer with a high quality of life? While good diet,proven supplements, exercise programs, regular fasting, and natural hormones will help you do this, nothing at all compares to simple calorie restriction. And, it's free. Not only is it free... it costs you less money to eat less food.

Calorie restriction is the most important thing you can do to increase your lifespan. What does "calorie restriction" mean? It means we eat too much and the less we eat the better basically. An average man only needs about 1,800 calories a day and an average woman only about 1,200. Americans probably eat at least twice this amount- and from the wrong foods.

There are only three sources of calories- proteins at 5 calories per gram, carbohydrates also at 5 calories a gram and fats at a whopping 9 calories per gram. We eat about 42% fat calories, mostly from saturated animal fats but we only need about 6-8%. You have to eat less than 20% fat calories to get any benefits at all from a low fat diet and l0% is the ideal.

So you have to walk around hungry all the time to pull this off? Not at all. In fact quite the opposite is true you can eat all you want if you eat the right foods. That's correct, you can literally eat all you want if you eat whole natural foods and leave the high fat foods alone. You can eat a small chocolate bar or three bowls of nutritious oatmeal and get the same amount of calories. Which would satisfy your hunger more?

Do we have proof of this? Animals that ate one third less calories actually lived a third longer in animal experiments. There is no reason at all to think this wouldn't work in humans. Monkeys are the latest to be tested and every test indicates that they are healthier, younger and more vigorous than monkeys who are allowed to eat all they want. The problem with testing humans is that it could take 70 or 80 years to come up with the scientific evidence. Obviously on a low calories diet like this you have to eat whole natural nutrient dense foods like whole grains, beans, vegetables and fruits- even seafood in moderation. Red meat, dairy products, eggs, poultry and high fat vegetarian foods such as nuts and avocadoes can only be an occasional treat.

How can you really do something like this? Start with eating two meals a day. Eating three meals a day is completely unnecessary and a waste of time. Would you rather eat breakfast and supper or would you rather eat lunch and supper? Doesn't matter.

You can also fast one day a week by not eating breakfast and lunch on any given day. This will allow you to go 24 hours on water only-the definition of a true fast. On Friday night for example eat supper and don't eat breakfast or lunch on Saturday. On Saturday night eat your usual supper and you will have fasted for 24 hours and your Saturday will be freed up for you to get more done and have more leisure time.

The Okinawans for example eat a very low calorie diet and have 134 centenarians per 100,000 people- the highest rate in the world. It is never too late to begin this. Better you begin at 70 years of age than never bother. Ideally this should start at birth of course. About the only books written on this subject are by Roy Walford. He wrote "The 120 Year Diet", "Maximum Lifespan" and "Beyond the 120 Year diet". Yes, he seems to be the only author on the subject. But I constantly find studies in the top medical journals proving over and over a calorie restricted diet has amazing health benefits.

Again, you are thinking you will go hungry. This is not the point at all to go hungry. Make better food choices. Stop eating fat which contains almost twice the calories of protein or carbohydrates. Stop eating refined carbohydrates like white bread, white rice, and white pasta. Stop eating all simple sugars whether this is white sugar, brown sugar, raw sugar (there's a joke!), fructose, molasses, honey or other sweeteners. Sugar is sugar is sugar. All sugars are natural when you think about it. What's unnatural about white sugar? It is simply purified sucrose.

Besides Walford please take the time to read those old books by Nathan Pritikin or his son Robert. They do more for heart health than all the cardiologists put together. Their philosophy is very simple- eat a 10% fat diet and exercise even if it is just walking everyday. You don't have to be a marathon runner or Olympic swimmer- just walk at least a half hour a day (2 miles). You can also read the numerous books by Gary Null who has written some fine books on eating naturally and enjoyably. Susan Powter is not just a TV diet guru for women who want to lose weight. She writes very well on how to eat all you want and lose weight by making the right food choices. Dean Ornish also tells you how to enjoy your food without the fat. Eat all you want and lose weight as long as you eat whole natural foods. The fact we eat twice the calories we need, four times the fat we need (and saturated fat rather than vegetable oils), twice the protein we need and 125 pounds of sugars a year (when we don't need any at all) speaks for itself.

People keep looking for "magic pills" and exotic supplements so they can take a pill and keep eating badly. This obviously won't work. Change your lifestyle. Health is priceless. You simply can't eat 40% and more of your calories in saturated fats and be healthy and live very long. You simply can't endlessly stuff yourself with the wrong foods and run to the doctor looking for help. Lifestyle is the answer and it costs nothing. In fact you can eat well and take some valuable supplements for far less money than eating too much bad food and running to the doctor constantly.

The most powerful thing you can do to live longer and be healthier and feel better and be immune to disease is to eat less food and eat the proper, whole, natural foods so you're never hungry.