The Longevity Diet: ‘How to live to 100 . . . Longevity has become the new wellness watchword . . . nutrition is the key’ VOGUE - Softcover

Longo, Dr Valter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1405933941 ISBN 13: 9781405933940

Publisher: Penguin, 2018

Synopsis

'How to live to 100 . . . Longevity has become the new wellness watchword . . . nutrition is the key' VOGUE

Eat the foods to help you live longer . . .

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'The diet that holds the key to staying young . . . Dr Valter Longo is now considered one of the most influential voices in the 'fasting movement' The Times

'Dr Valter Longo is one of the real scientific pioneers when it comes to researching the impact of food on health' Dr Michael Mosley, bestselling author of The Fast Diet and The Clever Guts Diet

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THIS is the internationally bestselling, clinically tested, revolutionary AND straightforward diet to help you slow-down ageing, fight disease and lose weight.

Following 30 years of research Professor Valter Longo - a biochemist and one of the world's leading researchers into ageing - has investigated genetics, nutrition and stem cells to discover that the secret of longevity lies in cellular regeneration triggered by a special diet. He is now able to reveal how, by adhering to his fasting-mimicking diet we heal ourselves through food.

Dr Valter Longo's healthy, lifespan-extending programme is based on an easy-to-adopt lifetime plan, coupled with a fasting-mimicking diet 3-4 times a year, and just 5 days at a time, that gives all the health benefits of fasting without the hunger. Including 30 easy recipes for an everyday diet based on Longo's Five Pillars of Longevity, The Longevity Diet is the key to living a longer, healthier and more fulfilled life.

Try easy, plant-and-fish based recipes that use phenomenal, livelong ingredients . . .

· Great for the heart and rich in antioxidants: black rice with courgette and shrimp with a mixed green salad, sweet tomatoes and carrots drizzled in balsamic vinegar

· For a good source of iron, snack on dark chocolate and yoghurt

· For dessert try tangy dried cranberries and walnuts

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Make simple changes that can extend your healthy lifespan

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Prevent age-related muscle and bone loss

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Build your resistance to diabetes, cardiovascular disease, Alzheimer's and cancer

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Maintain your ideal weight and reduce abdominal fat

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Why rely on medication to cure illness, when you can help to prevent it altogether with your diet?

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Review

With 30 years of research, it's less diet and more long-term upgrade (Women's Health)

Eat less, live longer: the diet that holds the key to staying young . . . Dr Valter Longo is now considered one of the most influential voices in the 'fasting movement' (The Times)

The interviews with centenarians are eye-openers (Saga)

Worth reading this year (Get the Gloss)

Fascinating, well-written and well-evidenced (Outdoor Fitness)

Eat to live for ever (well nearly)! (The Daily Mirror)

If you're super busy, try [the] fasting-mimicking diet (Healthy)

With a five-day fasting plan, eating well can also help to turn back your biological clock (Women's Own)

From the Back Cover

The internationally renowned, clinically tested, revolutionary diet program to lose weight, fight disease, and live a longer, healthier life.

Can what you eat determine how long, and how well, you live? The clinically proven answer is yes, and The Longevity Diet is easier to follow than you'd think. The culmination of 25 years of research on ageing, nutrition, and disease across the globe, this unique combination of an everyday diet and fasting-mimicking diet (FMD) to be done only 3-4 times per year lays out a simple solution to living to a healthy old age through nutrition.

FMD does away with the misery and starvation most of us experience while fasting and helps you reap all the beneficial health effects of a restrictive diet while avoiding the negative stressors, like low energy and sleeplessness.

Valter Longo, Director of the Longevity Institute at USC and the Program on Longevity and Cancer at IFOM in Milan, developed THE FMD after making a series of remarkable discoveries in mice and humans indicating that specific diets can activate stem cells and promote regeneration and rejuvenation in multiple organs to reduce the risk for diabetes, cancer, Alzheimer's and heart disease. Longo's simple pescatarian daily eating plan and the periodic, fasting-mimicking techniques can both yield impressive results. Low in proteins and sugars and rich in healthy fats and plant-based foods, The Longevity Diet is clinically proven to help you:

Lose weight and reduce abdominal fat
Make simple changes which can extend the healthy lifespan
Prevent age-related muscle and bone loss
Build your resistance to diabetes, cardiovascular disease, Alzheimer's and cancer

Longo's healthy, life span-extending plan is based on an easy-to-adopt pescatarian plan along with the fasting-mimicking diet 4 times a year, and just 5 days at a time. Including 30 easy recipes for an everyday diet based on Longo's five pillars of longevity, The Longevity Diet is the key to living a longer, healthier, and more fulfilled life.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1405933941
• ISBN 13: 9781405933940
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 320