Eating less could help you live to 100. »
Posted by: GregD 1 year, 5 months agoStudies in a wide range of species, from worms to mice and monkeys, have come to the same conclusion: eat all the nutrients necessary for a healthy life and cut calories to the bare minimum - half the normal daily amount - and you could extend life span by up to half..
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TechnologyExpert1 year, 5 months ago
Yeah, this isn't new stuff. It's called a "calorie restrictive" diet and is considered to be part of the reason Okinawans live so long. That and exercise throughout their lives, as lifestyle, not an optional regimen as we typically have in the US.
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helios1 year, 5 months ago
Similar results are reported also in a recent book about a radically new diet. It maintains that food is not even second in terms of importance for our health and fitness, slash weight, but a distant third. Contrary to all traditional books on diets it demonstrates that a set of behavioral factors are primary. You can check it out at www.dukaty.com, under "Publishing".
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ronaldus1 year, 5 months ago
Intermittent fasting (IF) has all the health benefits of caloric restriction (CR), but you aren't starving all the time.
http://www.genomenewsnetwork.org/articles/2004/07/
I fast every other day (fast 36 hours, eat whatever I want for 12) and have lost 30 pounds and kept it off for two years. I also feel great, probably because my blood pressure and cholesterol levels have plummeted.
Plus, food tastes so much better after a fast.
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lvrofwolves1 year, 5 months ago
wild animals have to hunt for food,and eat what nature tells them to eat. some animals have to eat almost constantly like the hummingbirds which can eat up to 50% of their body weight in nectar every day..can you imagine us needing to eat 50% of our weight in sugar everyday???? the more you exercise, the more calories and water your body needs.
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Willy131 year, 5 months ago
Fasting is jsut the same as starving yourself. There is no point in fasting. If you eat right and exercise you'll lose just as much weight, and feel great.
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B1BLancer1 year, 5 months ago
"With "eating right" you are ALWAYS hungry. "Eating right" means NOT eating as much as you want."
Not true at all. It's as much, if not more about what than it is how much.
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DDD4EVA1 year, 5 months ago
I soooo agree! eating right is eating ****** likel; vegetables, fruits, fish etc....these things just leave you feeling hungry! or if not hungry, you will be hungry with in an hour after food!
also they dont taste as good!
They dont satisfy my sweet tooth (like no fruit will ever replace chocalete for me!)
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DDD4EVA1 year, 5 months ago
Oh my god! i so agree with you again!!!!!
I like to eat so much that my stomach hurts! But i do feel unwell, unenergetic and tired after that (very heavy in the stomach, so much i find it hard to breathe)!
But if i just eat a light meal, that fills me just to the right amount (so im not hungry, but havent over eaten)- i feel UNSATISFIED!!!
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PucciPat1 year, 5 months ago
eating right and exercising is the key to a healthy lifestyle. starving yourself and 'fasting' for a whole 36 hours is just insane. how do you operate for that long without any kind of carb or protein intake, let alone water? (need i remind our body is ~70% water?) maybe if you're a fatty mcfat and have fat reserves, but my 150 lb 6 ft lanky ass def. needs to eat atleast 4 times a day. robbing your body and blood of those nutrients is obviously taking a toll on your brain cell population
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ronaldus1 year, 5 months ago
Did I say I didn't drink water? I drink all the water I want whenever I want. Didn't you know that water has no calories?
I am 54 years old, run triathlons, my blood pressure is 100/60 with a resting heart rate of 52. My cholesterol went from 230 to 183 since I started fasting.
The reason I started fasting was because I was about to graduate to pant size 40. Since I started fasting I am down to pant size 36, and every other day I eat absolutely as much as I feel like eating.
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PucciPat1 year, 5 months ago
first off, if you're drinking water whenever you want, it isnt technically fasting. look it up in websters or whatever, the key word in the definition of fasting is ABSTAIN. what would be the point to starve yourself yet still allow yourself to drink water? thats moronic. just like the part where you tried to diss on me and say it has zero cals. so does coke or pepsi zero or whatever soda you want nowadays. so why dont you drink that? idiot. its not the point that it has zero calories. thats not even what fasting is about.
maybe if you had some self control at a younger age you wouldnt have ballooned to pant size 40 at age 50.
as i said above, im 6 ft tall, and weigh 152 lbs as of this morning. oh yeah, and my 22nd birthday is in 2 weeks.
ride a bike, set down your mickey d's (every other day), and shut up because it appears you're the only moron that thinks this kind of sh!t actually helps. next you're gonna tell me you voted for bush, twice. and you're a scientologist
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PucciPat1 year, 5 months ago
i eat when im hungry. plain and simple. anywhere from one to 6 meals in a day. i try to eat healthy when i can. i exercise everyday, and i couldnt GAIN ten pounds of fat in a whole year, even if i tried.
prove that last statement, and i will redeem you with your intelligence. otherwise, have a good day sir!
edit: werent you the one that said up there somewhere something about variable metabolic rates? that are controllable....
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DDD4EVA1 year, 5 months ago
I smoke all the time and I eat so much when after that.
Yet, even though it has been proven that smoking can kill brain cells, i havent experienced it (even though i have been smoking every sigle day for 8 years now!).
I have managed to graduate with a top degree from one of the best universities in the world and get a good job, etc
BUT - it does often send me into an uncontolable eating frenzie after a smoke! and there is not much i can do, and i dont want to! cause i love to smoke and eat lots of food- its just fun for me.
so in conclusion i think the fasting/starving ever other day is a good idea! as it means one day i can smoke and eat to my heart content but then strave for 1 day....and so on! gread idea!
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SitNlook1 year, 5 months ago
If you Eat More you'll get to 200!!!!pounds that is. If you stop eating altogether you'll gain anorexic and bulemic friends.
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vijaykumar1 year, 5 months ago
i was reading an article somewhere on a site it tells something else is this true?
http://www.surfarticles.com/index.php?page=article
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lvrofwolves1 year, 5 months ago
when they can tell you how to live to be 100 and ENJOY it completely...Then I'll be more interested.
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stephen-johnson1 year, 5 months ago
If you fast, you won't live longer - it will just seem longer. ;-)
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cleare1 year, 5 months ago
anybody hear of "breatharians"? these folks believe you can do without food entirely, and that, in fact, living with out eating will make you immortal.
...of course you have to be pretty freaking spiritually superior to achieve this, not like us mere mortals.
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B1BLancer1 year, 5 months ago
Of course, his name was there not all that long ago. I wonder what he did that day.
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money1001 year, 5 months ago
Just last week, I read an article indicating that anti-oxidants decreased life span ... now we are being told that oxidants decrease life span ... I can't figure out if I should be anti oxidants or pro oxidants ... WoW ... confusing stuff.
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money1001 year, 5 months ago
Does being obese make life seem shorter or is it actually shorter .. I believe it is the latter ...
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Joe237421 year, 5 months ago
Why would anyone want to live to be 100? Even if you got great gains from investments in those last 20 years, you still have to deal with the fact that your kids are old, you don't have much energy, you shouldn't be driving, you can't really work, nobody really cares what you have to say, and over half your friends are dead. Shouldn't we be working on the quality of life rather than the quantity?
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MrPrinciple1 year, 5 months ago
Hey yeah, If you live to be a hundred, you could have 80 year old kids and 60 year old grandkids
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ntuitive11 year, 5 months ago
I forget the sources, but I've been reading recently that intermittent fasting and eating actually helps the body lose weight and is healthy. However, it doesn't matter how much I restrict my diet and how much exercise I get, I never lose all that much weight, even on supervised diet and exercise programs (the experts all insist I must be chowing down Dove bars at night but no). Welcome to being almost 50 and a woman. When I was younger I had no difficulty losing but the rules are different for pre-menopausal females.
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DDD4EVA1 year, 5 months ago
Please help peeps!!!!
My situation is I like to eat a lot!!! and i mean a lot! It brings me a LOT of joy to have a big 'smoke' ;) and then eat eat eat!!! U know what i mean (well at least some of you do ;))
So i dont want to refuse myself the pleasure of stuffing my face with junk food!
But at the same time i want to stay slim!
I am a young girl and therefore can easily go for long prioda of time with out any food at all!
so it would seem this fasting diet where you starve for 1 day- then eat your heart out, sounds just right for me! (like to eat a lot and can easily starve!)
But some one (in this discussion) said that they put on weight with this kind of fasting diet!!! thas worring! i am so scared of getting fat! but i want to enjoy my life and food is a huge part of that joy for me!
so what do you think! will this strve/eat diet make me lose weight or put it on?????
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