Blue Zones – Long lived populations?
Most would not choose to live like the people described in this video. But we can mimic what they do, especially with regard to maintaining a healthy body weight.
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The Ultimate Weight Management Experiment
These two monkeys were part of a decades long experiment. Monkeys were divided into two groups. Both groups were fed exactly the same food (albeit high in sugar to mimic a modern western diet). One group had food freely available. The other group had their food restricted to a daily amount that maintained a healthy body weight. … Read more
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Essential Foods – Part 1
Food is made up of two components, nutrition and energy. To lose weight we must consume less energy than we expend. Food is the least essential of what we need to sustain life; minutes without air and days without water and we’re done; kaput! But we can last weeks, or even longer, without food. In … Read more
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The Presidents Excellent Heart?
Yesterday I listened to the president’s doctor release the details of the Presidents recent health check up. The doctor was asked by reporters why his heart was in good health, when he ate junk food, was overweight and had high cholesterol. This after stress testing, echocardiograms, and so on, indicating his heart was in great … Read more
