[Villages PL]

Other than eating more pizza and drinking more beer, do you have a serious plan that you actually practice?

[Barefoot]

Originally Posted by Villages PL

Other than eating more pizza and drinking more beer, do you have a serious plan that you actually practice?

My plan is to lie about my age which automatically makes me ten years younger. Doesn't it?

[LABSX2]

I'm moving to TV!!!!

[pooh]

In all honesty, I'm not sure if this is actually possible for some. Of course, taking care to eat right, take safety precautions in living and taking and doing things in moderation is a good way to live, but there are those little genes that might just prevent long life. My Dad lived to 98 years of age....he smoked, drank, had lots of stress in his life, and didn' eat well by today's definition of what's healthy, but his mother as well as his grandmother lived into their very late 90's. My father-in-law exercised, ate well, regularly visited his health care providers, yet he died at 72 from cancer, a disease that plagued his family, and took the lives of his parents as well as many of his siblings.

I'm not advocating throwing all caution to the wind and doing whatever the heck we want....but it must also be recognized that we are the results of DNA soup and sometimes, no matter what....we either live longer or shorter lives. Sometimes our efforts to eat well, drink in moderation, and all the other things we do to stall the Grim Reaper, may keep some of around longer, sometimes, not.

I'll get off my soapbox now and get busy....the more you move, the less likely you will rust.....

[rjm1cc]

Originally Posted by Villages PL

Other than eating more pizza and drinking more beer, do you have a serious plan that you actually practice?

Exercise.
Keeping active.

[jimbo2012]

Originally Posted by rjm1cc

Exercise.
Keeping active.

Yep!

Also changing to a vegan plant based diet about a year+ ago made a BIG difference.

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[zcaveman]

You will never "defeat" aging. That is a part of life - think death and taxes.

You can attempt to turn around the life you have been living for the past 55 or so years and hope that the benefits will regress the affects of your past life or you can continue to enjoy life and hope that the additional exercise that you get in TV will give you a few additional years.

That is my plan and I am sticking to it.

[wesmin]

Move It Or Lose It

[mac9]

Live each day to the fullest. I have no bucket list. When I want to do something, I do it.

[Villages PL]

The only thing I know of that has been proved to work to slow down the aging process is to eat a low calorie diet while getting as much nutrition as possible. That means consentrating on eating a wide variety of non-starchy vegetables. Vegetables are very low in calories yet high in nutrition. Of course there's more to it than that but I won't get into it here.

Why low calorie diets work: Calories have to be burned by the body. It's the burning of calories that takes a toll on the body. I would compare it to a gasoline engine. The more gas you burn in your car, the more you shorten the life of the engine. Rev up the engine, pop the clutch, and go speeding down the highway. It's a lot of fun but shortens the life of the car. We are much the same.

I've been on a low calorie vegan diet since the spring of 2006 and I'm very satisfied with the results so far. My diet before that was good but I just decided to add the veganism so as to maximize the nutrition from a plant based diet.

Of course there are no guarantees; it's all about reducing risk and wear. I suppose if we did all the right things from an early age we'd have a shot at being healthy up to 110 and beyond.

I started thinking about this subject because I'm reading a book: "Long For This World: The Strange Science of Immortality" by Jonathan Weiner. The author is a Pulitzer prize-winning science writer. I'm only up to chapter 4 but find it interesting so far.

[George Bieniaszek]

My plan for not growing older is telling people, if they ask, that I am still 29 years old.

At the end of this month, I will be celebrating my 30th anniversary of my 29th birthday!!

[jimbo2012]

Originally Posted by Villages PL

That means consentrating on eating a wide variety of non-starchy vegetables. Vegetables are very low in calories yet high in nutrition. Of course there's more to it than that but I won't get into it here.

You should if you care to take the time, it has a greater effect on those of us 55+ than anything else we can do.

Bill Clinton and many others have come realize the benefits.

The only folks that are against it are companies that make processed foods, butchers and your local drug store ( most people eliminate their need for drugs or greatly reduce them).

Type II diabetes is eliminated, high cholesterol and a host of other aliments.

Your entire circulatory system changes......or said another way Vegan is the new Viagra.

This was a Peta TV ad that ran recently.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=m0vQOnHW0Kc

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[Villages PL]

Originally Posted by jimbo2012

You should if you care to take the time, it has a greater effect on those of us 55+ than anything else we can do.

Okay, I'll try to provide more information about what I do.

Breakfast: I first put together a small bowl of chopped (fresh) fruit. I add to it a sprinkling of chopped walnuts. At the same time, I'll have one serving of steel-cut oats cooking on the stove. The cooking takes about 20 minutes after which I'll let it sit in the pan for about 40 minutes. In the mean time, I go through my exercise routine.

Lunch: I'll make a big salad in a salad bowl. This could include just about any vegetables you like. I typically use Romaine lettuce, tomatoes, cucumber, raw (baby) carots chopped into small pieces, celery and cauliflower or broccoli. With the salad I''l have one slice of Ezekiel bread. Then I'll eat a side dish of beans for protein. The bread contains 4 grams as protein as well. I use fresh lemon juice and extra virgin olive oil for dressing. (I limit the olive oil to one teaspoon.)

Dinner: I'll usually make a vegetable soup with beans and a little whole grain rice or barley. I use a variety of vegetables in the soup and a variety of beans. Then I'll put one teaspoon of olive oil in the soup. That comes last because I don't want to cook the olive oil. Again, one slice of Ezekiel bread. That's basically it.

Some people will say it's boring but it's not boring to me. I really like beans, whole grains and vegetables a lot. I never get tired of them. And I enjoy good health!

[jimbo2012]

Yep, sounds good the only thing we differ on is the oil, we don't use any.

We do more pasta either rice or whole wheat and tofu.

We eat the Ezekiel bread I like their bagels alot. where do buy it there?

Are there any vegan groups?

[Villages PL]

Originally Posted by jimbo2012

Yep, sounds good the only thing we differ on is the oil, we don't use any.

We do more pasta either rice or whole wheat and tofu.

We eat the Ezekiel bread. where do buy it there?

Are there any vegan groups?

Ezekiel bread is sold at Publix and I believe Sweetbay has it too.

I think there are a couple of vegan groups but I have never joined them. The reason? Well, one group asks members to bring a covered dish to share with others. I believe the members are mostly women and they, like most women, are into recipies. I've never been attracted to following recipies, nor am I interested in talking about recipies. And I'm afraid they might be into eating a lot of starches like potato salad and macaroni salad etc.. And how about processed desserts containing sugar? I'm not interested in that either. But I should go at least once to see what it's like.