Increase Your Lifespan with a Healthy Diet Plan
What is the maximum estimated potential lifespan for a human? Most authorities and researchers estimate that a human body is capable of living to be 120. Yes, years. That is significantly different than the average life expectancy of around 75 (a little higher for females). What makes it possible to live to be 120?
For starters, you could easily list a few things that may move the average down, for example deaths from car accidents. There are even the more obvious things that take a life too early that may be prevented such as cancers. So what are the basics that can provide an increase in the number of years that most of us are expected to live? The number one element that has been shown to add years to an average life has to do with diet, and specifically reducing the number of calories consumed. This is referred to as Calorie Restriction (CR). Not just reducing the total number of calories, but reducing intake to those absolutely-essential calories, such as those that come from foods high in antioxidants - namely, plants.
Here's more from Roy Walford, an individual who has put much of his life into the subject, not only from the standpoint of research but also personal experience.
Those interested in calorie restriction should read Roy Walford's books listed in the Resources section of this manual. Calorie restriction (CR) is the only method currently proven to slow the aging process at its fundamental level. Other current methods may have some minor effects on slowing the basic aging rate, but they are mainly targeted at greatly slowing the manifestations of aging. There is good reason to believe that, by staying alive and healthy using the non-CR methods, one can stay alive long enough to be able to use future non-CR life extension techniques that will stop the underlying processes of aging completely.
To put it another way, only calorie restriction can currently push the maximum lifespan significantly beyond its current limits (about 120 years in humans). It is likely, however, that full application of the current non-CR techniques of life extension can increase the average life expectancy well beyond the (currently-typical) mid-seventies by stretching the healthy middle years by about three decades.
Anyone seriously pursuing a program of life extension or advanced preventive medicine should read at least 80 percent of the books listed in the Recommended Books section at the back of this manual and learn how to use a medical library and to research the National Library of Medicine online. See: National Library of Medicine Search Page
This may seem like a lot of work, but the most common mistake made in this area is to spend large sums of money on nutritional supplements while paying attention to only one or two "experts" in this field. It is important that anyone who plans to spend the remainder of an extended lifespan on a life extension program make sure that the time and money that such an endeavor requires is spent wisely. Self-education and reading about these subjects with a skeptical mind is the only way to do this. No one should entrust their health to any one source of information, not even this manual. This manual is written by a science writer, not a physician. Read more...
Comments: The subject of anti-aging or slowing the aging process is more and more becoming mainstream. We at The Health & Wellness Institute make every effort to motivate others to get on the road to a healthier lifestyle through proper diet and regular exercise, in addition to antioxidant supplementation. This is just the beginning of what may soon be proven methods for reducing sickness, disease, and increasing years to life while adding life to more years. The basic foundation of health and longevity, though, begins with a diet that is complete with plenty of fruits, vegetables, or any other plant-based foods that contain high levels of antioxidants. Antioxidants seek out free radicals and render them harmless so they can be excreted out of the body without causing inflammation, which is one general cause of speeding up the aging process. Here's one last comment made on the same site referenced above which I think sums up the subject quite well -
In the case of anti-aging medicine, if you choose to be in the control group (not using any kind of anti-aging medicine), then you can pretty much know what the results will be. Visit any local nursing home for examples of what the future may be like for those in the control group. For those of us in the experimental group in life extension and anti-aging medicine, the future is uncertain; but it is likely to be much more pleasant than what the control group will be experiencing.
Final note: Start taking steps in the direction of better health. It just takes one change at a time, and in one year you will be living fit, healthy, and have a higher likelihood of a long life free of sickness and disease.
*These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.
