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B U I LT T O L A S T

words by
DR VALTE R LONG O
Photography by
YAGI S T UDIO

The long
game

A

lot of people think the
various diet books the
experts tell us about
are nothing more than
passing fads. After
all, there have been hundreds of different
suggestions down the years. Well, ItalianAmerican biogerontologist Valter Longo
thinks he has developed a solution that's
here to stay. 
Valter has been hailed as the king of the
"fasting movement", and his Longevity
Diet has been backed by millions of dollars
in research, allowing him to claim it can
help reduce the risk of diabetes, cancer,
Alzheimer's and heart disease. 
Dr Longo's Fasting Mimicking Diet (FMD)
is explained in his book The Longevity Diet,
which outlines how an FMD approach works,
reveals the results his research has yielded
and includes the impact this could have on
people everywhere...
"Are carbohydrates, proteins and fats good
or bad? How about periods in which we don't
eat, or eat very little? It may surprise you, but
every dietary component can be both good
and bad, depending on their type and level.
"Let's begin with the fundamentals and
therefore with the method used to determine
whether a food can help you make it to the
ripe old age of 110 completely healthy, or
develop a disease in your 40s. In my book,
I discuss the importance of making decisions

Following a
fasting mimicking
diet could be the
key to make sure
your Golden Years
last a lifetime

based on five pillars of science and
medicine including epidemiology,
clinical studies, basic research, studies of
centenarians and studies of complex systems,
like cars and aeroplanes.
"By using this five pillar system, it's
possible to come up with recommendations
that are much safer and not likely to change
in the next few years. A fundamental feature
of this system is that it combines
science, technology and history. For
PL ANT POWER
example, the fashionable 'low
The Okinawan
fat' dietary choices of 20 years
Japanese
have the
ago have now been replaced
world's highest life
by 'low carb' diets, creating
expectancy (90 for
confusion in many people."

LIVE LONG & PROSPER

women, 84 for men).
They eat a 96%
plant-based diet

"Is a low-carb, high-protein
diet recommended for health and
longevity? Epidemiological, basic research,
clinical and centenarian studies all indicate
this diet will shorten your life and promote
a range of diseases. The common mistake
selecting the low-carb and similar diets is to
focus on a few studies that show such a diet
can result in weight loss and, in some cases,
may have short-term beneficial effects on
a few disease risk factors.
"In contrast, based on the five pillars

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