Finding What You Need
A Handbook of Rich Resources for Seniors and Retirees
Stephen Lau
A Handbook of Rich Resources for Seniors and Retirees
Stephen Lau
Role Models of Healthy Aging
by
Stephen Lau
by
Stephen Lau
Throughout history, there have been many role models of healthy aging. Role models are individuals who serve as examples, to which many may aspire, and whose behaviour is often emulated by others.
Luigi Cornaro
Luigi Cornaro, a Venetian nobleman, who lived from 1464 to 1566 AD, was one of the most celebrated centenarians. Luigi indeed was a role model of smart living and healthy aging through his calorie-restriction diet that not only saved him from ill health but also afforded him a long life span of peace and tranquility.
The wisdom of Luigi Cornaro has been an inspiration for almost five centuries. His healthy aging was simple and down-to-earth:
Luigi Cornaro
Luigi Cornaro, a Venetian nobleman, who lived from 1464 to 1566 AD, was one of the most celebrated centenarians. Luigi indeed was a role model of smart living and healthy aging through his calorie-restriction diet that not only saved him from ill health but also afforded him a long life span of peace and tranquility.
The wisdom of Luigi Cornaro has been an inspiration for almost five centuries. His healthy aging was simple and down-to-earth:
| • | Avoiding overeating |
| • | Avoiding environmental stress, such as extreme heat and cold (environmental toxins in contemporary society) |
| • | Avoiding extreme fatigue, and interruption of sleep |
In his youth, Luigi had abused his health with indulgence and wantonness, resulting in a weak constitution. For many years, he had been plagued by many physical ailments so severe that he often thought of the comfort of death.
At the age of thirty-five, Luigi was given up by his physicians to die. After many unsuccessful medical treatments, his physicians prescribed a temperate lifestyle as the only way to end his suffering and preserve his fragile life. That temperate lifestyle was essentially an exercise of self-discipline in diet and drinking to reduce his intake of calories. His physicians recommended that he eat only certain foods, and only in very small quantities - a calorie-restriction diet for healthy aging.
At first, Luigi did not follow his physicians’ recommendation, and secretly continued his indulgence in eating and drinking.
Luigi’s persistent ill health finally made him succumb to his physicians’ advice. In desperation, he opted for a drastic calorie restriction on food, cutting down to twelve ounces a day of solid food of bread, a vegetable soup with tomato, an egg yolk, and a little meat, all divided equally into two meals; and fourteen ounces of pure grape juice, also divided into two servings. When he decided to embark on that course of healthy aging of temperate living with calorie restriction, he did so with great enthusiasm and determination.
Luigi not only recovered from his ill health, which had been afflicting him with pain and suffering for years, but also became capable of enjoying life. From age thirty-five until eighty-five, Luigi simply ate only as much food as he needed to survive and no more.
At age eighty-five, Luigi’s relatives began to urge him to eat a little more since he was getting old and therefore requiring more physical strength. Complying with and succumbing to their well wishes and importunities, Luigi reluctantly agreed to increase his food intake from twelve to fourteen ounces.
Immediately, Luigi became violently ill with high fever. Eventually, he became once again a role model of healthyt aging by reverting to his former anti-aging living with a diet of calorie restriction. As a result, he lived in a state of unbroken health and happiness until the age of one hundred and two.
When he died, Luigi died in an ideal natural way: he was in his rocking chair; he closed his eyes, took a nap, and did not wake up. There was no pain or suffering in his later years - ever! His mind was as clear as a bell until the very end - no senility, and no memory loss! Truly, Luigi was one of the role models of healthy aging.
The key to Luigi’s healthy aging wisdom was calorie restriction or how much he ate:
At the age of thirty-five, Luigi was given up by his physicians to die. After many unsuccessful medical treatments, his physicians prescribed a temperate lifestyle as the only way to end his suffering and preserve his fragile life. That temperate lifestyle was essentially an exercise of self-discipline in diet and drinking to reduce his intake of calories. His physicians recommended that he eat only certain foods, and only in very small quantities - a calorie-restriction diet for healthy aging.
At first, Luigi did not follow his physicians’ recommendation, and secretly continued his indulgence in eating and drinking.
Luigi’s persistent ill health finally made him succumb to his physicians’ advice. In desperation, he opted for a drastic calorie restriction on food, cutting down to twelve ounces a day of solid food of bread, a vegetable soup with tomato, an egg yolk, and a little meat, all divided equally into two meals; and fourteen ounces of pure grape juice, also divided into two servings. When he decided to embark on that course of healthy aging of temperate living with calorie restriction, he did so with great enthusiasm and determination.
Luigi not only recovered from his ill health, which had been afflicting him with pain and suffering for years, but also became capable of enjoying life. From age thirty-five until eighty-five, Luigi simply ate only as much food as he needed to survive and no more.
At age eighty-five, Luigi’s relatives began to urge him to eat a little more since he was getting old and therefore requiring more physical strength. Complying with and succumbing to their well wishes and importunities, Luigi reluctantly agreed to increase his food intake from twelve to fourteen ounces.
Immediately, Luigi became violently ill with high fever. Eventually, he became once again a role model of healthyt aging by reverting to his former anti-aging living with a diet of calorie restriction. As a result, he lived in a state of unbroken health and happiness until the age of one hundred and two.
When he died, Luigi died in an ideal natural way: he was in his rocking chair; he closed his eyes, took a nap, and did not wake up. There was no pain or suffering in his later years - ever! His mind was as clear as a bell until the very end - no senility, and no memory loss! Truly, Luigi was one of the role models of healthy aging.
The key to Luigi’s healthy aging wisdom was calorie restriction or how much he ate:
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It employs the state-of-the-art sound technology known as brainwave entrainment, which guides your brain waves into sleep by listening to a specially constructed audio that has the beats or tones that match the electrical activity of sleep. Your brain waves follow it and begin to slow down. As you brain waves slow you relax and drift off to sleep.
It employs the state-of-the-art sound technology known as brainwave entrainment, which guides your brain waves into sleep by listening to a specially constructed audio that has the beats or tones that match the electrical activity of sleep. Your brain waves follow it and begin to slow down. As you brain waves slow you relax and drift off to sleep.
Eat Stop Eat
Stop dieting and start living!
The Eat Stop Eat method of using flexible, intermittent fasting as a way of fasting for weight loss and body fat burning for healthy aging.
Stop dieting and start living!
The Eat Stop Eat method of using flexible, intermittent fasting as a way of fasting for weight loss and body fat burning for healthy aging.
”he who leads the temperate life can never fall sick, or at least can do so only rarely; and his indisposition lasts but a very short while. For, by living temperately, he removes all the causes of illness; and, having removed these, he thereby removes the effects. So the man who lives the orderly life should have no fear of sickness; for surely he has no reason to fear an effect, the cause of which is under his own control.” Luigi Conaro
According to Luigi, "each person is his or her own best physician" and "the temperate life is the best medicine."
The moral lesson from the incredible story of Luigi is simple: The key to health and happiness is inextricably associated with the quantity of food you consume daily; and the science of healthy aging living is simply eating less.
Healthy aging is simply calorie restriction on your diet. Eat less, not more, as you grow older. Remember, whatever is more than what you need may be harmful.
Healthy aging is calorie restriction, which may hold the key to a longer and healthier life. Experiments have shown that the health of laboratory animals can be dramatically improved and their lifespan doubled simply by reducing their food intake to the minimum required. However, that by no means implies your need to “starve” yourself for calorie restriction in order to become a centenarian.
Nevertheless, centenarians not only have calorie restriction (not exceeding 2,000 calories per day) throughout life but also consume far less meat. The main reason is that on a diet based on calorie restriction, your organs are not being continually and consistently overstressed, thereby allowing your body to digest easily and detoxify materials without accumulating harmful surpluses in your system. Digestive health is longevity health. Healthy aging and calorie restriction are often synonymous.
The moral lesson from the incredible story of Luigi is simple: The key to health and happiness is inextricably associated with the quantity of food you consume daily; and the science of healthy aging living is simply eating less.
Healthy aging is simply calorie restriction on your diet. Eat less, not more, as you grow older. Remember, whatever is more than what you need may be harmful.
Healthy aging is calorie restriction, which may hold the key to a longer and healthier life. Experiments have shown that the health of laboratory animals can be dramatically improved and their lifespan doubled simply by reducing their food intake to the minimum required. However, that by no means implies your need to “starve” yourself for calorie restriction in order to become a centenarian.
Nevertheless, centenarians not only have calorie restriction (not exceeding 2,000 calories per day) throughout life but also consume far less meat. The main reason is that on a diet based on calorie restriction, your organs are not being continually and consistently overstressed, thereby allowing your body to digest easily and detoxify materials without accumulating harmful surpluses in your system. Digestive health is longevity health. Healthy aging and calorie restriction are often synonymous.
Given the amount of food necessary to sustain life, as well as maintain excellent health and spirit, is so small, it is rather shocking to realize that nearly all of us, with very few exceptions, simply overeat and produce an endless array of miseries in our lives in both mental and physical afflictions that require medical help. We have no one to blame but ourselves. Please, do not overeat!
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Lao Tzu
Lao Tzu was a great Chinese philosopher, perhaps only second to Confucius, the great teacher of the Orient. Lao Tzu’s philosophy of healthy aging was exemplified in his own lifestyle
“There is nothing worse than not knowing when one has enough. There is no greater fault than the desire for things. The one who knows when enough is enough will always have enough.”
Essentially, it means “temperate living” and “eating less” or "calorie restriction” - which, unfortunately, many of us simply fail to do not only in our younger years but also as we age.
Lao Tzu's living was based on the philosophy that “Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” Accordingly, he had lived a stressless life, throughout which he practiced the principle of "the golden mean."
Lao Tzu also demonstrated his profound insight into how to live a life of balance and harmony, which is the quintessence of healthy aging and smart living.
The concept yin and yang is the balance and harmony of life forces, and this concept is central to the Chinese wisdom of healthy aging, expressed in the healing methods that use food and herbs as medicine to bring about wellness. In Chinese culture, disease is the result of imbalance of qi (positive life energy) in the body, a reflection of the lack of harmony between yin and yang.
The Way of Life by Lao Tzu, translated by R.B. Blakney, expounds the philosophy of simplicity living for healthy aging, and the profound wisdom of “achieving much while seemingly doing nothing.”
Lao Tzu was a great Chinese philosopher, perhaps only second to Confucius, the great teacher of the Orient. Lao Tzu’s philosophy of healthy aging was exemplified in his own lifestyle
“There is nothing worse than not knowing when one has enough. There is no greater fault than the desire for things. The one who knows when enough is enough will always have enough.”
Essentially, it means “temperate living” and “eating less” or "calorie restriction” - which, unfortunately, many of us simply fail to do not only in our younger years but also as we age.
Lao Tzu's living was based on the philosophy that “Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” Accordingly, he had lived a stressless life, throughout which he practiced the principle of "the golden mean."
Lao Tzu also demonstrated his profound insight into how to live a life of balance and harmony, which is the quintessence of healthy aging and smart living.
The concept yin and yang is the balance and harmony of life forces, and this concept is central to the Chinese wisdom of healthy aging, expressed in the healing methods that use food and herbs as medicine to bring about wellness. In Chinese culture, disease is the result of imbalance of qi (positive life energy) in the body, a reflection of the lack of harmony between yin and yang.
The Way of Life by Lao Tzu, translated by R.B. Blakney, expounds the philosophy of simplicity living for healthy aging, and the profound wisdom of “achieving much while seemingly doing nothing.”
The Okinawa Centenarians
Okinawa, a state of Japan, consisting of a group of islands has more centenarians than any other place in the world. In addition, its inhabitants have the longest life expectancy in Japan, and probably in the world: at 86.01 years for women, and 77.64 years for men. As a result, a study was conducted to find out the relationship between centenarians and their profile and lifestyle. These centenarians can be role models of contemporary living for those who wish to have smart aging.
The profile of these centenarians serves as a role model of healthy aging:
The Okinawans consume a low-calorie and low-glycemic diet. They eat until they are only 80 percent full. Unlike the United States where obesity abounds, obesity is never a problem in Okinawa.
Okinawa, a state of Japan, consisting of a group of islands has more centenarians than any other place in the world. In addition, its inhabitants have the longest life expectancy in Japan, and probably in the world: at 86.01 years for women, and 77.64 years for men. As a result, a study was conducted to find out the relationship between centenarians and their profile and lifestyle. These centenarians can be role models of contemporary living for those who wish to have smart aging.
The profile of these centenarians serves as a role model of healthy aging:
The Okinawans consume a low-calorie and low-glycemic diet. They eat until they are only 80 percent full. Unlike the United States where obesity abounds, obesity is never a problem in Okinawa.
| • | The Okinawans consume a low-calorie and low-glycemic diet. They eat until they are only 80 percent full. Unlike the United States where obesity abounds, obesity is never a problem in Okinawa. |
| • | Virtually no women in Okinawa use estrogen replacement therapy; they experience menopause naturally without the use of pharmaceutical drugs. As a result, they experience fewer complications, such as hot flashes, hip fractures, or coronary heart disease. Okinawan women consume large quantities of soy to get their natural estrogen. Their diet is rich in soy, flax, legumes, onions, and broccoli. |
| • | Okinawa elders have an easy-going personality, strong social integration, and a deep spirituality. |
| • | Okinawans incorporate both Eastern and Western healing methods into their health care system. In other words, they do not readily reach out for pharmaceutical drugs, and they frequently use natural or herbal tonics. |
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Dr. Andrew Weil
Dr. Andrew Weil, with an M.D. from Harvard Medical School, is also an alternative expert. He is a contemporary role model of healthy aging, as evidenced by his publications and research.
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Dr. Andrew Weil, with an M.D. from Harvard Medical School, is also an alternative expert. He is a contemporary role model of healthy aging, as evidenced by his publications and research.
Dr. Wei's anti-inflammatory food pyramid provides a guideline of what to eat for healthy aging.
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