Vitality for life
People who know me know I’m committed to daily walking. My plan is to exercise every day except Sunday. (Sunday I set aside to focus on learning about and worshipping the Lord and spending time with believers.) And my favorite type of exercise is walking. I enjoy it, but there are also numerous health benefits, [...]
As many lapsed dieters can attest, even modest calorie restriction can be hard to sustain. And not everyone who wants to be healthy and long-lived wants or needs to be stick thin.
Mark Mattson, a researcher at the National Institute on Aging in Bethesda, Maryland, thinks an alternate route may be through what he calls intermittent [...]
Many studies (dating as far back as 1935) done on animals - including dogs and primates - show that controlling their diets by reducing daily calorie allotment 20 to 40% leads to increased longevity by as much as 50%. In many of the test subjects, their life span was extended beyond the maximum life span [...]