Living Longer: Calories that Count (Longevity - live to 158!)

PBS - Stealing Time series ^ | ? | Dr. Roy Walford

[MeekOneGOP]

[hillsborofox]

bump for reading after lunch (salad, rice cracker and a large pizza with extra cheese.)

[CaptainK]

About 5 years ago I had a college professor tell my class about the long range effects of a restricted calorie diet.
Here is a sample diet plan:
http://www.pbs.org/stealingtime/living/diet.htm

Not a bad as I imagined, but you would have to be a pretty disciplined person to stick to it.

As far as living to 150...too depressing to contemplate.

[Bubba_Leroy]

A restricted calorie diet does not make you live longer. It just seems that way.

[johnny7]

Whaaa? When I get up, I eat bacon. For lunch I eat bacon

For dinner, a big plate of bacon! Sometimes I cook it.

At 158, you'll look like a mummy and will smell bad.

Your kids will be dead and your grand-children will avoid you like poison.

Naaaah... 68 is good enough for me.

[gnarledmaw]

"...eat three heads of cabbage each day..."

Thats a bad thing? Admit it, you live in Wisconsin but youre a transplant, right?

[hattend]

As far as living to 150...too depressing to contemplate

Yep, as the US slides inexorable towards socialism, I'm not sure I want to be around in 100 years.

Unless I get phasers and the state has to wear red shirts.

[theFIRMbss]

>Check out the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine.

Thanks. I'll check them out.
In "The Anti-Aging Zone,"
Barry Sears also

gets on-board this bus.
The change doesn't have to be
drastic, just balanced

and carefully planned.
I'm afraid I might be too
impulsive. Maybe.

[joesnuffy]

Krispy Kremes n a good multiple vitamin mineral supplement

[vikzilla]

You get to live to be 150, but you have to eat three heads of cabbage each day...

Who would want to be around anyone that eats three heads of cabbage a day! Can you imagine some old guy thats been doing it for 50 yrs. WHEW!

[Sabertooth]

((((((growl)))))

[reformed_democrat]

I have to admit, they had me until I saw the recipe:

Anti-Aging Manicotti
Serves 4

This is a nutrient-rich low calorie version of one of our favorite dishes. Notice the unusual addition of the sweet potato. It makes the noodle stuffing rich, and adds valuable Vitamin E to the dish.

A large serving contains 545 calories, with only 10 percent of the calories from fat.

1 med sweet potato
1/2 cup skim ricotta cheese
3 tblsp chives, minced
2 broccoli spears, florets separated
2 carrots, sliced into 1/4" chunks
1/2 cup minced onions
1 stalk celery
12 oz canned stewed tomatoes
12 oz canned tomato purree
3 oz tomato paste
1/2 turkey breast (or tofu of tempeh)
5 shitake mushrooms
2 tblsp wheat germ
1/3 cup oat bran
6 oz whole wheat lasange noodles
3 tblsp parmesan cheese
1/2 cup parsley
2 sheets nori

If I put a sweet potato in my manicotti, my husband would leave me, and my kid would go with him ("She's lost it, Dad. Let's go.") They'll put up with a lot, but sweet potatoes were never part of the bargain.

[txzman]

Immediately made me wonder if there is something in fasting that also leads to better health, given a good diet in other respects.

It always intrigued me how many religious figures lived to very old age in times where disease, famine, malnutrition and infirmities made life very short in general.

[MeekOneGOP]

[SAMS]

O.K.

How come all of the those starving babies on National Geographic don't live to 158?

[SoDak]

Me too, besides, I won't be party to any diet that doesn't include the occasional porterhouse.

[MeekOneGOP]

AIDS and other disease may have something to do with it.

[glock rocks]

i'm a vegan, and don't know if i'll live any longer, but it sure will seem longer :o)

i'm not a vegetarian because i love animals, i'm a vegitarian because i hate plants.

after i get back down to 200, it'll be bbq season again, i'll be back to smokin an occasional pig & chicken (though they're hard to keep lit).

all things in moderation, and yes, beer is good for you.

thanks for the ping, Saber.

[boris]

There is this professor at UCLA who has been doing this to himself for years. He wants to live to be 150.

The amusing part is that he was a member of the "ecosphere" project. It turns out that the designers of that sealed environment neglected a teensy fact: plants give off small amounts of nitrous oxide (N20) which accumulate over time. They did not provide a scrubber for nitrous. Chronic exposure to nitrous oxide causes serious and incurable nerve damage (peripheral neuropathy [PN]). PN has numerous causes, including nitrous exposure, chemotherapy, injury, diabetes, and others.

As a sufferer of diabetic peripheral neuropathy I can assure you that it is one of the most painful diseases in the world. I could give details but I'll spare you.

The droll part is this guy wants to live to 150, living in constant pain.

Pass the mashed potatoes and gravy, please.

--Boris

[theFIRMbss]

> How come all of the those starving babies on National Geographic don't live to 158?

"The reason the semi-starved populations in parts of Africa or the Orient don't live longer is that they are not only calorie restricted, they are malnourished. The "adequate nutrition" side of CR is essential." [paragraph 8]