Does diet really matter for longevity?

[wolram]

If one wants to live a LOOOONG life doe's it matter what one eats and drinks?

I recon it is all in the mind set, if one doe's not want to kick the bucket one will endure,
just so long as some thing doe's not come along and throw a spanner in the works.

 

[glondor]

Chocolate and peanutbutter are a good start.

 

[turbo]

Chocolate and peanutbutter are a good start.

Eliminating or limiting?

 

[wolram]

Chocolate and peanutbutter are a good start.

I guess you are American, i tried a peanut butter and (jam) sarnie, (jelly is the wobbly stuff that kids eat), and it was the most evil taste i have ever experienced.

 

[Evo]

I've heard that calorie intake slightly below the recommended level is being conducted in longevity studies of Rhesus monkeys.

EAT LESS - LIVE LONGER

ALAN ALDA: We may not like it, but this is where we all end up after our allotted span. This is Albertine -- she lived 62 years; Sarah -- 45 years; Joseph -- 74 years. Many different ages, but you won't find any past about 120, and the average right now is in the seventies. But what if I told you, you wouldn't have to check in here until you were 150 years old? 200? 250? Right now a lot of serious, smart Scientists are beginning to say that's what's possible. They're starting to understand the details of what makes us age, right down to the level of our DNA. It's becoming realistic to think about intervening in the aging process. Already there are astonishing results with lab animals, with some living 4 times as long as normal. In this program, we'll be meeting Scientists whose work may help us live longer -- a lot longer. And we'll also be asking what it would be like to live a lot longer -- would life be worth living? But how do we get there? How do we get to a longer life? This first way may surprise you...

This is that great Scientific American show which also discussed telomeres.

Transcript http://www.pbs.org/saf/transcripts/transcript1003.htm#2

Whay can't it be "eat more, live longer"? Why is all the tasty stuff bad for you?

I was curious about follow up.

http://www2.medicine.wisc.edu/home/people-search/people/staff/1527/WEINDRUCH_RICHARD_H

 

[lisab]

I guess you are American, i tried a peanut butter and (jam) sarnie, (jelly is the wobbly stuff that kids eat), and it was the most evil taste i have ever experienced.

Are you serious?!? Wow. The peanut butter and jam sandwich is like an old friend (only it doesn't ever call you at 3 in the morning drunk, crying that it can't find the car).

 

[Pythagorean]

If one wants to live a LOOOONG life doe's it matter what one eats and drinks?

I recon it is all in the mind set, if one doe's not want to kick the bucket one will endure,
just so long as some thing doe's not come along and throw a spanner in the works.

I'm pretty sure it's not all in the mind set since villages where people live significantly longer have been connected to their foods. Yuzuri Hara is the example that stands out in my mind. I think it was their potatoes (or more specifically, the nutrient rich soil the potatoes were grown in).

That being said, a healthy mindset is required along side a healthy physical lifestyle for optimum living.

 

[wolram]

I've heard that calorie intake slightly below the recommended level is being conducted in longevity studies of Rhesus monkeys.

This is that great Scientific American show which also discussed telomeres.

Transcript http://www.pbs.org/saf/transcripts/transcript1003.htm#2

Whay can't it be "eat more, live longer"? Why is all the tasty stuff bad for you?

I was curious about follow up.

http://www2.medicine.wisc.edu/home/people-search/people/staff/1527/WEINDRUCH_RICHARD_H

Cool, but if i become a lab animal will i still have human rights? may be if i live an extra 50 yrs i will come to like peanut butter.

 

[wolram]

I'm pretty sure it's not all in the mind set since villages where people live significantly longer have been connected to their foods. Yuzuri Hara is the example that stands out in my mind. I think it was their potatoes (or more specifically, the nutrient rich soil the potatoes were grown in).

That being said, a healthy mindset is required along side a healthy physical lifestyle for optimum living.

I still think one has to be an occurred cuss, and even genetics play a large role (no one in my family has died young), excepting an uncle who died in ww1.

 

[turbo]

I still think one has to be an occurred cuss, and even genetics play a large role (no one in my family has died young), excepting an uncle who died in ww1.

My father's side of the family was so long-lived that someone had to kill one of them to start a cemetery.

 

[wolram]

My father's side of the family was so long-lived that someone had to kill one of them to start a cemetery.

Pickled in chili i guess.

 

[turbo]

Pickled in chili i guess.

No, that side of the family is Irish. They probably got the old gent pickled (I'm thinking single-malt) and cold-cocked him before he could get the best of them.

 

[Moonbear]

Cool, but if i become a lab animal will i still have human rights? may be if i live an extra 50 yrs i will come to like peanut butter.

Hey, don't knock it. If you become a lab animal, you'll have MORE rights than a human! No more drafty windows, and someone will come in every day to change your bedding and give you food and beverage and check that you're still healthy. It's a pretty sweet deal.

 

[binzing]

Seaweed!

 

[LogicalTime]

trick question! eat nothing!
http://www.genomenewsnetwork.org/articles/2004/07/09/calorierestriction.php

but seriously, there are some interesting studies relating to fasting

 

[wolram]

Hey, don't knock it. If you become a lab animal, you'll have MORE rights than a human! No more drafty windows, and someone will come in every day to change your bedding and give you food and beverage and check that you're still healthy. It's a pretty sweet deal.

Okay, so where do i sign up?

 

[misgfool]

Okay, so where do i sign up?

Let's not make hasty decisions here. I don't think most lab animals have the privilege to use the internet. You might be cut off from PF and we all know what that means.

 

[wolram]

Let's not make hasty decisions here. I don't think most lab animals have the privilege to use the internet. You might be cut off from PF and we all know what that means.

A lot of people shouting YIPEEEEE?

 

[misgfool]

A lot of people shouting YIPEEEEE?

No, that's not true... well maybe your spouse, but not the rest of us. That razor sharp wits of yours is hard currency here.