Live food Caloric Restriction

[Guest guest]

Hello folks,

 

This morning I bought a copy of " Rainbow Green Live-Food Cuisine "

by Dr. Gabriel Cousens. This book is amazing! I can't wait to read

it. Chapter 5 is " Health Secrets of Live Foods " . The first section of

this chapter is titled " Benefits of Calorie Restriction " and the

second section is " Live Foods- A Natural Way of Calorie Restriction " .

I am very happy to find this because most of the calorie restricted

articles deal with cooked foods.

 

In this chapter, he discusses longevity research and writes " Dr.

Kenneth Pelletier, as part of his longevity research, studied

cultures that had the highest longevity and created the healthiest

people, such as in the Vilcabamban region in Ecuador (particulrly the

Vilcabamban Indians), the Hunzas of West Pakistan, the Tarahumara

Indians of Mexico, and the Russian people of the Abkhasian region. He

found that they ate significantly less total calories, about 50% less

than the typical American diet. " (page 101)

 

On page 102 he writes " In a review of all the research, one finds

that some of the increases in life span were 50%, other research

shows 65%, and even as high as 83% extension of life span. In other

words, food restriction or calorie restriction is a sound and

experimentally proven way to exend life span. Calorie restrction is

the only thing we know that is able to consistently slow aging in all

varieties of animals, including the various mammalian species. "

 

On page 107 he writes " ... one need only eat approximately half the

amount of food and calories on a live-food diet as on a cooked-food

diet to get an equivalent amount of vitamins, minerals, protein, and

phytonutrients. On a healthy live-food regime one automatically gets

the anti-aging calorie-restriction effect without having to diet. "

 

He also mentions that " Periodic fasting as we have known for

centuries, is one of the most powerful ways to extend life and

minimize chronic disease. " (p. 108)

 

This book is amazing! I have kept swinging between a vegan live-

food diet and vegetarian live-food diet. After reading what Gabriel

has to say about raw milk and eggs, I am back to my vegan diet! I

think it was David Wolfe who said he loves to eat, and the less you

eat, the longer you live, and the more you get to eat.

 

Here is a neat article focusing on Demi Moore:

http://www.thegardendiet.com/news/demi.html

 

Have a great day!

 

Mike

 

Calorie restricted links:

http://www.calorierestriction.org

http://www.walford.com

http://www.cron-web.org/

 

> rawfood , Nina wrote:

> I went to a anti-aging symposium at the

> Smithsonian last year and the team from

> Harvard (one of the largest anti-aging labs)

> spoke about how long-term testing on yeast,

> worms, small mammals and primates (which they

> are in the middle of--they're 20-year studies)

> are proving that caloric restriction does

> indeed promote longevity--and--significantly

> reduce disease. They're putting money on the

> human tests working out as well.

> They talked about Ray Walford (UCLA) who has

> long advocated caloric restriction, with the

> stipulation that every bite needs to be

> nutritionally dense. ...

> Neither group listed above is raw, but if

> anyone has any interest, more info

> can be found at www.walford.com and at

> http://www.hms.harvard.edu/pathol/sinclair/.

>

> Nina