Ultimate Longevity Diet and Anti Aging Nutrition

Three Main Principles of an Anti Aging Diet

An anti-aging diet or longevity diet will be vegetarian, and best if vegan. It will include calorie restriction, the only proven way to slow the aging process. Finally, it will include the use of longevity foods, meaning foods that are full of antioxidants, minerals, and super nutrition without excess calories (SuperFoods) and that do not raise your insulin levels. Many people are not aware that insulin is very much involved in the process of aging. You can read about how to keep your insulin levels low several places on this website. To begin, start HERE. You may also read about hybridized foods to avoid because they raise your insulin levels.

Why Animal Products And Longevity Don't Go Together

One cannot eat animal products today as the main staple of their diet and expect to have long term, optimal health or to be living in a sustainable way. Yes, many centarians have eaten meat, but if you read the articles about them or talk t o them, meat is NOT the staple of their diet throughout their lives; it is more common to find fish in their diets than meat, and not in large quantities either. There is also the fact that many centarians are from places like South America, Cuba or Japan in areas where pollution may be less and most often where there are less affluent lifestyles with less overall food consumption, another key element of longevity.

Thus there is no argument or evidence among centarians for meat being a life sustaining food or an important element of a longevity diet, nor does length of life equate to quality of life either, another key component to health. One may live to be well into their 90's, but still need living assistance and be seriously ill, which to most does not equate to health or a life of high quality.

Meat and dairy are a concentrated source of nutrients, thus it is very hard to fit them into a calorie restriction program for longevity and still get the other nutrients you need. Flesh does not have minerals or phytonutrients like a low calorie superfood such as spirulina does. Spirulina is also the best source of protein on the planet, but with no calories, making it, rather than flesh, a perfect logevity food.

Dairy is Nature's most perfect food for a baby calf, who has four stomachs, will double its weight in 47 days, and is destined to weigh 300 pounds within a year! It is not a longevity food for humans, even if reduced calorie, because it is full of toxicity just like flesh. The amount of chlorinated hydrocarbon pesticide residues in the U.S. diet supplied by meat: 55%, by dairy products: 23%, by vegetables: 6%, by fruits: 4%, by grains: 1%. Percentage of U.S. mother's milk containing significant levels of DDT: 99%.

The Fountain of Youth

The raw diet , also known as living foods diet is THE MOST ENJOYABLE AND SENSIBLE way to get undernutrtion without malnutrtion,  to get superfoods in our diet everyday, and to be vegan. Thus the raw vegan diet has all the principles of a longevity diet. You will not find a better lifestyle out there for anti aging. The raw, living foods lifestyle is truly the lost fountain of youth, which Alissa Cohen beautifully describes:

There are thousands of testimonials where people claim the same experience, like the actress Demi Moore who is married to someone half her age and she almost looks like she could be half her age, and this is my own experience as well, best stated by the fact that at 27 years old I was working as a 16 year old in T.V. and film. I am 31 now and people don't think I am older than 21. The scientific basis for this is best described by Gabriel Cousens, M.D. in his book Spiritual Nutrition:

Aging, Methyl Groups, and Cooked Food

In addition to the powerful youthing effects, people also get extremely excited about what a freedom and liberation the lifestyle is, making it truly not a diet at all. One no longer has to think about food or agonize over whether the right foods are being consumed, because pretty much whatever is consumed is packed with perfect balance straight from nature. Bodybuilder Stephen Arlin gives another reason why living foods are not considered a "diet ":

Arlin, Stephen. Raw Power: Building Strength and Muscle Naturally. Maul Brothers Publishing: San Diego, CA, 2rd ed., 2000.

Arlin, Stephen, Fouad, Dini, & Wolfe, David. (1998). Nature's First Law: The Raw Food Diet. San Diego: Maul Brothers Publishing.

Cohen, Alissa. Living on Live Food. Cohen Publishing Co: Deerfield Beach, FL, 2004.

Cousens, Gabriel. Spiritual Nutrition. North Atlantic Books: Berkeley, CA, 2005.

Cuba. 120 Years Club Havana. February 14, 2005.Rare Centenarians Conference. http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2005/febrero/lun14/8centrer.html.

Delaney, Walford. The Longevity Diet. Marlowe and Company: 2005.

Fabric of a long life : Centenarians on Okinawa credit healthy diet, youthful outlook Paul WisemanUSA Today, January 8, 2002. http://www.globalaging.org/health/world/fabricofalonglife.htmGRANMA INTERNATIONAL/ONLINE EDITION.

Walford, Roy L. Maximum Life Span. W. W. Norton,May, 1983, p 44.