Name: The Longevity Diet
ISBN: 9780525534075

Valter Longo

Valter Longo developed fast-mimicking diet (FMD) - a simple daily eating plan and periodic, fast-mimicking techniques that yield the same age-defying results as more rigorous, traditional fasting plans. Low in protein and sugars and rich in healthy fats and plant-based foods, Longo's life-extending plan is based on an easy-to-adopt pescatarian diet along with the FMD. Including 30 easy recipes for an everyday diet and the FMD plan. Print run 75,000.

Discover the New Science Behind Stem Cell Activation and Regeneration to Slow Aging, Fight Disease, and Optimize Weight

The Longevity Diet

Francesco d'Angela

Kevin Wammer

'How to live to 100 . . . Longevity has become the new wellness watchword . . . nutrition is the key' VOGUE Eat the foods to help you live longer . . . __________________ 'The diet that holds the key to staying young . . . Dr Valter Longo is now considered one of the most influential voices in the 'fasting movement' The Times 'Dr Valter Longo is one of the real scientific pioneers when it comes to researching the impact of food on health' Dr Michael Mosley, bestselling author of The Fast Diet and The Clever Guts Diet _________________ THIS is the internationally bestselling, clinically tested, revolutionary AND straightforward diet to help you slow-down ageing, fight disease and lose weight. Following 30 years of research Professor Valter Longo - a biochemist and one of the world's leading researchers into ageing - has investigated genetics, nutrition and stem cells to discover that the secret of longevity lies in cellular regeneration triggered by a special diet. He is now able to reveal how, by adhering to his fasting-mimicking diet we heal ourselves through food. Dr Valter Longo's healthy, lifespan-extending programme is based on an easy-to-adopt lifetime plan, coupled with a fasting-mimicking diet 3-4 times a year, and just 5 days at a time, that gives all the health benefits of fasting without the hunger. Including 30 easy recipes for an everyday diet based on Longo's Five Pillars of Longevity, The Longevity Diet is the key to living a longer, healthier and more fulfilled life. Try easy, plant-and-fish based recipes that use phenomenal, livelong ingredients . . . · Great for the heart and rich in antioxidants: black rice with courgette and shrimp with a mixed green salad, sweet tomatoes and carrots drizzled in balsamic vinegar · For a good source of iron, snack on dark chocolate and yoghurt · For dessert try tangy dried cranberries and walnuts _________________ Make simple changes that can extend your healthy lifespan * Prevent age-related muscle and bone loss * Build your resistance to diabetes, cardiovascular disease, Alzheimer's and cancer * Maintain your ideal weight and reduce abdominal fat * Why rely on medication to cure illness, when you can help to prevent it altogether with your diet?

The Longevity Diet Discover the New Science Behind Stem Cell Activation and Regeneration to Slow Aging, Fight Disease, and Optimize Weight

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