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Diet and
Longevity
Proof that you can live longer by eating a good diet!
Living Longer On The Longevity Healthy Diet
- Live past 100, but feel like you're in your forties?
July 9, 2006
Many Americans, and the number is increasing, believe it is possible by eating a special kind of diet.
New research shows that they may be right.
If you have a Big Mac-burger, large fries and a large Coke, you will get
about 1,450 calories with just one meal.
But if you eat grain cereals, salad, tuna and vegetables, you still get
about 1,450 calories, but it is in three separate meals. (careful: don't
eat too much of the Tuna - lots of Mercury)
While there is no doubt which is healthier, there is now evidence that all those nutritious unprocessed foods may add decades to your life.
"I think I'll probably live much longer than most people who don't give much thought to what they eat," said Sarah
Krethmer.
Krethmer said she expects to live well past 100 years, but not frail and in a wheelchair.
"I don't want to be old and turning into some kind of puddle, you know," Kretchmer said.
So, Krethmer embarked on a life-altering regimen, and her lunch of cod, greens and melon was just one meal in a way of life known as calorie restriction.
Calorie Restriction
Otherwise known as CR.
Editors note: CR is the only Proven way to extend
life!
She eats fewer calories than most nutritionists recommend. Some people cut their intake by
35 - 45%.
"I actually have printouts of today's values. I am at about 1,400 a day,"
Krethmer said.
Studies prove that in animals, calorie restriction works.
Monkeys, fish and rodents sometimes live up to twice as long when they are forced to eat less.
Early research suggests that even exercise can't compete with cutting calories when it comes to living longer.
The people practicing "calorie restriction" in the studies had almost zero heart attack risk and the blood pressure and cholesterol levels of a
teenager and these folks were in their fifties.
Dr. Lugi Fontana of St. Louis' Washington University, who is one of the researchers, said the results are so promising that they now want to know if calorie restriction can actually reverse aging.
"You don't have to be extreme. You can have major changes by changing
little things and improving the quality of your diet," Fontana said.
Krethmer's parents are also part of the research, and their lunch of a huge plate of fruits and vegetables is
about 500 calories -- the same as two raisin bagels.
"We're just very, very selective in the types of food we do eat," said Dick
Krethmer.
Now in their sixties, the Krethmers may live far longer than many of their friends, but if the theory is correct, Sarah
Krethmer will live even longer.
There are enough die-hard believers in the program that there is now a
Calorie Restriction Society
(www.calorierestriction.org/) Illinois member David Stein eats 1,200 to 1,400 calories a day.
"Cut back 10 percent and see what happens to your weight. If you get down to something you're happy with, fine. If not, cut back another 10 percent, see what happens," Stern said.
Stern lost more than 50 pounds.
"My blood pressure dropped to normal range," Stern said.
But skeptics include University of Chicago geriatrician Daniel
Braunier, who is not convinced by the human research.
He doesn't think the diet would work for most Americans.
"This would be something, if it did work -- be something that only a small number of people could adhere to. Because we eat more than just to live, it might take some of the pleasure from eating,"
Braunier said.
But, science aside, the people on this diet said they are sold, especially because of the way they feel.
"I sleep better. I sleep like a stone," Dick Krethmer said.
"The energy is better," said Carla Krethmer.
"I went off all my medicine after two years," Stern said.
"I rarely get sick. I just feel like it's a healthier way of being. I feel better," Sarah
Krethmer said.
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