Halving your smoking quota won’t help you live longer
If you thought that cutting your daily cigarette quota by half would be beneficial to your health, well than you better think again, for a new study has found that doing so makes no difference at all.
But that smoker’s cough sure is sexy.
KSDK NewsChannel 5 - Five Things You Can Do Tomorrow To Live Longer
But he says, we should stabilize at a moderate weight by 60 and then focus on maintenance. So, five easy steps: maintain a moderate weight, eat a diverse diet, have more fish than red meat, have a few drinks, and add a daily dose of activity.And there you have Dr. John Morley’s simple prescription for longevity.
Diversity and moderation are pretty much universally recognized as good things. However, we take issue with one of the article’s characterizations:
Morley doesn’t buy the theories about severe calorie reduction prolonging life.
“This is true if you’re a mouse,” he explained.
Or yeast, or a fruit fly, or a worm, spider, rodent, dog, cow or monkey. In fact, every species in which it has been tested has shown increased life expectancy from calorie restriction. The fact that it has not yet been proven in larger animals is partly a result of already longer life expectancies (it’s takes a long time to prove humans will live to 120 rather than 80 on such a diet) and the difficulty of creating a controlled experiment.
So, while it may not be the lifestyle choice for everyone, the scientific evidence to date strongly suggests Morley is wrong on calorie restriction.
Rev up your metabolism and then burn blubber with this fat-burning workout plan. Dr. John Berardi does not have his Ph.D. in prestidigitation, but he can help you lose weight.The following workout from Berardi’s new book, The Metabolism Advantage, combines weight training and cardio exercises to create a “calorie-obliteration” process that lasts for hours after your last rep. No mirrors, just the “magic” of metabolism.
Like many “fat-burning” workouts, the plan relies on a combination of cardio and strength training. Doesn’t seem particularly special in any other way.
Ten days into my calorie restricted diet, I am feeling great and losing weight. While die-hard CR practitioners would probably shudder, I budget three specific foods that many may consider wasted calories into each day’s meal plan: pomegranate juice, a glass of red wine, and a Dove mini dark chocolate piece.
The wine and pomegranate juice have been fairly well documented of late. To some extent, so has chocolate. But my latest justification for the treat comes from Eating Fabulous » Chococate Flavonoids Exhibit Aspirin-Like Effects on Cardiovascular Health:
If you’re still not convinced that a moderate consumption of dark chocolate can do you good, well, here’s a new one: the flavonoids in cocoa beans appears to have a biochemical effect similar to aspirin in reducing platelet clumping, which can be fatal if a clot forms and blocks a blood vessel, subsequently causing a heart attack.The results came inadvertently during the Genetic Study of Aspirin Responsiveness (GeneSTAR) study conducted at Johns Hopkins. The data indicate that daily moderate consumption of chocolate may already have an impact.
Dove Minis, at 40 calories apiece, are a low-impact answer to the occasional sweet tooth. Lindt dark chocolate truffles are far tastier, but hae correspondingly higher calories.
Refrigerator Raider reports on a WebMD study showing more people Lose Weight With A Vegetarian Diet
After 18 months, the vegetarians lost an average of 11.2 pounds. The other dieters lost an average of 10.4 pounds. That may not seem like a significant difference. However, one of the reasons for this may be because not all the vegetarians were able to stick with a meat-free diet. Among the vegetarians who actually followed the vegetarian plan for the entire study, the average weight loss was 16.5 pounds.
Our Calorie-restricted diet is off to a strong start, with 2.5 pounds gone in the first week. It is not vegetarian because it is damn hard to get 100 grams of veggie-based protein in a day. But there is no doubt that healthy servings of vegetables help curb the appetite for little added calorie cost.
Found via Disease Proof: Report: Fish and Soy Cut Cancer Risk
Reuters reports people who ate soy regularly are less likely to develop breast cancer. And, men who eat fish several times a week have a lower risk of colon cancer.
Fish = Brain food.
UltraMetabolism Blog: How to eat 12 pounds of food daily and still lose weight…
Dr. Dennis Burkitt, a famous English physician, studied the differences between indigenous African bushmen and their “civilized” western counterparts.The bushmen seemed to be free of the scourges of modern life –including heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and obesity.
Dr. Burkitt found that the average bushman had a stool weight of 2 pounds and the “civilized” men had a stool weight of only 4 ounces - that’s 87.5% smaller!
The difference?
In a word, fiber!
Today, the average American eats about just 8 grams of fiber a day.
But the average hunter and gatherer ate 100 grams from all manner of roots, berries, leaves and plant foods.
Since starting caloric restriction I am getting at least 30 grams per day. I think 100 would kill me.
Excite News - Want to Live to a Healthy 85? Stay Trim
Study participants were in their 50s on average when the research began; 3,369 or 58 percent died before age 85. Health was evaluated at the start and then at eight follow-up examinations.Eleven percent - 655 men - reached a milestone the researchers dubbed “exceptional survival.” That was reaching age 85 without any mental or physical impairment, including cancer, heart disease, stroke, lung disease, Parkinson’s disease and diabetes.
The men who had none of nine disease risk factors at mid-life had a nearly 70 percent chance of living to age 85 and a 55 percent chance of reaching the exceptional milestone.
By contrast, those with six or more risk factors at mid-life had a 22 percent chance of living to age 85 and a less than 10 percent chance of exceptional survival.
The nine mid-life risk factors were: being overweight, meaning a body-mass index of 25 or more; having high blood glucose levels, which can lead to diabetes; having high triglyceride levels, which contribute to heart disease; having high blood pressure; having low grip strength - unable to squeeze at least 86 pounds of pressure with a handheld device; smoking; consuming three or more alcoholic drinks daily; not graduating from high school; and being unmarried.
“These risk factors can be easily measured in a clinical setting and are, for the most part, modifiable,” the researchers said.
Definitely modifiable. If I lose the weight I need to and keep it off, I should be nine for nine.
Yesterday blueberries, today acai berries. Never heard of them?
‘Miracle’ Berries Can Help You Live Longer - Health - TheDenverChannel.com | KMGH
There’s a miracle berry that can help you live longer and healthier and chances are you’ve never heard of it.It’s called acai and it could help you ward off cancer, protect your heart, even prevent Alzheimer’s disease, according to some research.
Acai berries contain mind-boosting chemicals that may delay dementia. They can lower cholesterol and a new study even found they kill leukemia cells.
Word is they are very tart.
Disease Proof: Blueberries: One of Nature’s Best Foods
One cup of blueberries contain 80 calories and a whole pint gives you about 225 calories. Like all other foods, the calories in blueberries come from its macro nutrients - 56 grams of carbohydrate, 1.5 grams of fat and 2.7 grams of protein. But it is blueberries’ micro nutrient content that packs the most impressive wallop. Blueberries are packed with tannins, anthocyanins that have been linked to prevention - and even reversal - of age related mental decline and anti-cancer effects.Blueberries are the only food so far that has been shown not just to prevent, but actually to reverse abnormal physical and mental decline, including coordination and balance, in aged animals.
Since I started restricting calories I have been looking for foods that give more bang for the buck. And since I like berries anyway…
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