Month: December 2024

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1. Start each meal with a soup and/or salad and/or fruit.

2. Follow the 50/50 plate method for your meals, filling half your plate (by visual volume) with non-starchy vegetables and 50% (by visual volume) with minimally processed starches. Choose fruit for dessert.

3. Greatly reduce or eliminate added sugars and added salts. This includes gourmet sugars and salts too. If either is troublesome for you, you can eliminate them.

4. Eliminate all animal foods (dairy, meat, eggs, fish, seafood).

5. Eliminate all higher fat plant foods (i.e., nuts, seeds, avocados, tofu, soy).

6. Eliminate any added oil.

7. Eliminate all higher calorie-dense foods including flour products (i.e. bread, bagels, muffins, crackers, dry cereals, cookies, cakes), puffed cereals, air-popped popcorn and dried fruit.

8. Don’t drink your calories (especially from juices & sugar-sweetened beverages).

9. Follow these principles, eating whenever you are hungry until you are comfortably full. Don’t starve yourself and don’t stuff yourself.

10. Avoid being sedentary and aim for at least 30 minutes or more of moderate exercise daily (i.e., brisk walking).

[Ed: My opinion is to add resistance training to item 10. Also,  after reaching your health goals, you rarely & judiciously add small amounts of the vegan items in steps 3, 5, 7… but be very careful, or you’ll easily slip back into poor health!]

John McDougall MD discusses the process of cancer growth, and shows that prevention through a healthy diet and lifestyle is the only defense, and “early detection” is BS. This is an excerpt from Dr. McDougall’s talk at the 2016 Expo.

The following are Jeff Nelson’s words from the comment section linked below:

“He [McDougall] also had a devastating stroke when he was 19 which left him with some permanent paralysis, made it very hard for him to exercise. He also had two significant falls, the second one he fell down a flight of stairs in a house he was leasing and nearly died. Broke bones, went into kidney failure, had internal bleeding. He was never able to fully recover, due I expect to the weakness he experienced all his life on one side, and I think it led to his frailty, though mentally he was solid. I don’t believe he made any diet mistakes. But he played the hand he was dealt beautifully, and had a huge positive impact on humanity, is my take.“

Dec 19, 2024

https://youtu.be/AYCKKCWF3dc?si=-MGKys5mV7IipLYg

(Originally posted Aug 26, 2020)

Dr. Shigeaki Hinohara
Japanese doctor who lived to 105—his spartan diet, views on retirement, and other rare longevity tips.

1. Don’t retire. But if you must, do so a lot later than age 65.

2. Take the stairs (and keep your weight in check).

3. Find a purpose that keeps you busy.

4. Rules are stressful; try to relax them.

5. Remember that doctors can’t cure everything.

6. Find inspiration, joy and peace in art.

Read DETAILS here.

I love it! He encouraged us to play like children!

Here are MY modifications (just keep in mind that I’m 40 years younger than he was!)

1. If you hate your job retire at 25! Train yourself in something you love doing, become the consummate expert in the field, then you will have less trouble finding a way to make a living doing it. (Consumers/employers seek out the best, and they recognize passion when they see it!)

2. MOVE! Yes, take those stairs, but also park far from the front door, walk/slow-jog/bicycle instead of driving… swab the scuppers, hang the jib, run the rig, heave the yardarm, batten down the hatches, weigh the anchor & hoist the mizzen! (In other words, do resistance training… like a pirate, aargh!)

3. Live to love… & let yourself laugh!

4. What rules?

5. Know your own body & outlive your doctor!

6. Bow your knee only to the ONE greater than yourself.

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If you’re struggling with your health, follow a strict SOS-Free plant-based lifestyle.

If your health is strong & stable consider a LOW-SOS plant-based lifestyle.

*(SOS = salt, oil, sugar)