PublishedViking, January 2018 |
ISBN9780143788379 |
FormatSoftcover, 320 pages |
Dimensions23.3cm × 15.5cm × 2.6cm |
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.
Bill is one of the founders of Boffins and has been involved in selecting the books we stock since our beginning in 1989. His favourite reading is history, with psychology, current affairs, and business books coming close behind. His hobbies are reading, food, reading, drinking, reading, and sleeping.
Valter Longo grew up in Genoa in norther Italy and spent most of his summer holidays with his extended family in Calabria. Dreaming of being a rock star, he moved to Chicago in the U.S, at 16, to pursue music studies. He soon became fascinated by the difference between the diet in America, and the Mediterranean diet he had grown up with in Italy, and that his American relatives were suffering from diabetes and heart disease that hardly registered a blip among his relatives at home. He then changed from studying music to studying biochemistry, and started a lifelong quest to find out why some people seem to stay young while others age prematurely. 30 years later, he now heads the University of Southern California’s Longevity Institute and the program on Longevity and Cancer at IFOM in Milan. He studies centenarians, and conducts epidemiological studies of populations, to discover how people live long and healthy. This new book collects all his accumulated wisdom and puts it into a simple program that anyone can live by. Longo’s research shows that it works on both younger people and older people – that you can turn back the biological clock. His program is recommended by thousands of doctors worldwide. It’s a lifetime diet program, coupled with a fasting-mimicking diet 2-6 times a year. He also has chapters covering diet for the prevention and treatment of each of cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, Alzheimer’s disease, and inflammatory and autoimmune diseases’. A great book to bring you up to date on how you can help yourself stay young.
