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muscles strong, which can help you maintain mobility as you get older. Aerobic exercise also keeps your mind sharp. At least 30 minutes of aerobic exercise three days a week seems to reduce cognitive decline in older adults.· Live longer Studies show that people who participate in regular aerobic exercise live longer than those who don’t exercise regularly.I do a fifteen-minute fairly intensive aerobic workout first thing in the morning, with two walks (also aerobic exercise) later in the day (adding up to five miles). Adjust the intensity and length of workout and walk to fit your needs.FastingNot that I would go so far as to call my two fruit-days fasting, but it is certainly next door to it. The average calorie intake on a fruit-day is about 550, compared to around 1,600 for my days one-through-eight regimen.Initially, it certainly felt like fasting, but now that my body has grown used to this, it feels more like cleansing than anything else.Calorie RestrictionEarth Alone does, however, fall under the heading of Calorie Restriction, which has been acknowledged to slow the aging process.Here’s a quote from Wikipedia on the subject:Caloric restriction (CR), or calorie restriction, is a dietary regimen that restricts calorie intake, where the baseline for the restriction varies, usually being the previous, unrestricted, intake of the subjects.Calorie restriction without malnutrition has been shown to improve age-related health and to slow the aging process in a wide range of animals and some fungi.CR is one of the few dietary interventions shown to increase both median and maximum lifespan in a variety of species, among them yeast, fish, rodents and dogs. There are ongoing studies on whether CR works in nonhuman primates, on its effects on human health, and on the metabolic parameters associated with CR in other species.The results so far are positive, but the studies are not yet complete, due to the long lifespan of the species. Among the current studies, one at UCSF, with Nobel laureate Elizabeth Blackburn as part of the investigation team, is looking at long-term CR practitioners, including the psychological factors that keep them motivated to stay on a CR diet.Some research has shown CR to also reduce atherosclerosis risk factors.Nutritional SupplementsI have taken multivitamin and mineral supplements most of my life. Lately, in order to trim costs, I searched for and found the best value for money in NatureMade’s Daily Maximin Packs.To supplement this, I take 2 extra grams of Vitamin C daily. Why? Well, I don’t think Linus Pauling received two Nobel Prizes for no apparent reason, and if he sings the praises of Vitamin C, who am I to argue.Also — and closer to home — I find that I do much better with a high daily dose of Vitamin C than without.</p

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I have found NatureMade’s 300 count 1,000 mg to be the most cost-effective option for me.Open AirI was born in a small northern Swedish town, and I grew up in the country just outside another small town. Forest nearby. Streams and lakes. Geese flying south in the fall, arriving again in the spring from who-knows-where.Winters all had snow, and some nights they’d put on the most spectacular show of all: the northern lights (which make a crackling sort of sound as well, not unlike static, did you know that?). At least four or five times each winter I’d look up and there would be that amazingly huge and multi-colored, constantly shifting celestial organ (yes, if often reminded me of the pipes in our nearby church). Young boy agape in awe.It took all this for granted and did not realize quite how lucky I was.During my thirty years in Los Angeles I never saw any geese, much less any of them flying south. What nature there was (Griffith Park) was hemmed in by freeways. There was the Angeles Crest National Forest, and there were the beaches, but my visits there were few and far between and there was nothing Swedish about them.These days I have settled in Crescent City, California, a stone’s throw south of the Oregon border. I found a cabin a ten-minute walk from the Pacific and I have not looked back since. Clean air, lots of space, nearby redwoods. Not quite Sweden, but the next best thing.But I have re-discovered the pleasures of open air.I don’t know what research, if any, has been done relative to health, aging, and open air, but intuitively I’d say that living as close to nature as you can, and spending as much time as you can in the open air, will do no harm.Quite the opposite.© Wolfstuff<div id="0caf" class="link-block">

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The Zen of Calories

Part Sixteen: Long Life

Aging

We have now come to the longer-life part of the story. Here I cannot offer conclusive personal experience to back my take on Earth Alone and my exercise routine, i.e., that they are conducive to long life — check back in forty or so years. But what follows is as much common sense as it is based on the fact that at seventy-this-year and counting I feel not a day over thirty, and that at the last checkup the doc said I had the blood pressure of a teenager (a healthy one, we assume).

Aging is of course a side-effect of being born. Unavoidable, as we Buddhists say. There’s no getting around it: we do age, and we will eventually age all the way, as it were.

There are, however, factors that can slow the process, and increase health at the same time.

Exercise

While you should exercise as part of long-term weight loss, that is not the only reason to do so.

According to a Mayo Clinic (http://MayoClinic.com) write-up, you will derive the following benefits from a daily aerobic workout:

· Keep excess pounds at bay Combined with a healthy diet, aerobic exercise helps you lose weight — and keep it off.

· Increase your stamina Aerobic exercise may make you tired in the short term. But over the long term, you’ll enjoy increased stamina and reduced fatigue.

· Ward off viral illnesses Aerobic exercise activates your immune system. This leaves you less susceptible to minor viral illnesses, such as colds and flu.

· Reduce your health risks Aerobic exercise reduces the risk of many conditions, including obesity, heart disease, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, stroke and certain types of cancer. Weight-bearing aerobic exercises, such as walking, reduce the risk of osteoporosis.

· Manage chronic conditions Aerobic exercise helps lower high blood pressure and control blood sugar. If you’ve had a heart attack, aerobic exercise helps prevent subsequent attacks.

· Strengthen your heart A stronger heart doesn’t need to beat as fast. A stronger heart also pumps blood more efficiently, which improves blood flow to all parts of your body.

· Keep your arteries clear Aerobic exercise boosts your high-density lipoprotein (HDL or “good”) cholesterol and lowers your low-density lipoprotein (LDL or “bad”) cholesterol. The potential result? Less buildup of plaques in your arteries.

· Boost your mood Aerobic exercise can ease the gloominess of depression, reduce the tension associated with anxiety and promote relaxation.

· Stay active and independent as you age Aerobic exercise keeps your muscles strong, which can help you maintain mobility as you get older. Aerobic exercise also keeps your mind sharp. At least 30 minutes of aerobic exercise three days a week seems to reduce cognitive decline in older adults.

· Live longer Studies show that people who participate in regular aerobic exercise live longer than those who don’t exercise regularly.

I do a fifteen-minute fairly intensive aerobic workout first thing in the morning, with two walks (also aerobic exercise) later in the day (adding up to five miles). Adjust the intensity and length of workout and walk to fit your needs.

Fasting

Not that I would go so far as to call my two fruit-days fasting, but it is certainly next door to it. The average calorie intake on a fruit-day is about 550, compared to around 1,600 for my days one-through-eight regimen.

Initially, it certainly felt like fasting, but now that my body has grown used to this, it feels more like cleansing than anything else.

Calorie Restriction

Earth Alone does, however, fall under the heading of Calorie Restriction, which has been acknowledged to slow the aging process.

Here’s a quote from Wikipedia on the subject:

Caloric restriction (CR), or calorie restriction, is a dietary regimen that restricts calorie intake, where the baseline for the restriction varies, usually being the previous, unrestricted, intake of the subjects.

Calorie restriction without malnutrition has been shown to improve age-related health and to slow the aging process in a wide range of animals and some fungi.

CR is one of the few dietary interventions shown to increase both median and maximum lifespan in a variety of species, among them yeast, fish, rodents and dogs. There are ongoing studies on whether CR works in nonhuman primates, on its effects on human health, and on the metabolic parameters associated with CR in other species.

The results so far are positive, but the studies are not yet complete, due to the long lifespan of the species. Among the current studies, one at UCSF, with Nobel laureate Elizabeth Blackburn as part of the investigation team, is looking at long-term CR practitioners, including the psychological factors that keep them motivated to stay on a CR diet.

Some research has shown CR to also reduce atherosclerosis risk factors.

Nutritional Supplements

I have taken multivitamin and mineral supplements most of my life. Lately, in order to trim costs, I searched for and found the best value for money in NatureMade’s Daily Maximin Packs.

To supplement this, I take 2 extra grams of Vitamin C daily. Why? Well, I don’t think Linus Pauling received two Nobel Prizes for no apparent reason, and if he sings the praises of Vitamin C, who am I to argue.

Also — and closer to home — I find that I do much better with a high daily dose of Vitamin C than without.

I have found NatureMade’s 300 count 1,000 mg to be the most cost-effective option for me.

Open Air

I was born in a small northern Swedish town, and I grew up in the country just outside another small town. Forest nearby. Streams and lakes. Geese flying south in the fall, arriving again in the spring from who-knows-where.

Winters all had snow, and some nights they’d put on the most spectacular show of all: the northern lights (which make a crackling sort of sound as well, not unlike static, did you know that?). At least four or five times each winter I’d look up and there would be that amazingly huge and multi-colored, constantly shifting celestial organ (yes, if often reminded me of the pipes in our nearby church). Young boy agape in awe.

It took all this for granted and did not realize quite how lucky I was.

During my thirty years in Los Angeles I never saw any geese, much less any of them flying south. What nature there was (Griffith Park) was hemmed in by freeways. There was the Angeles Crest National Forest, and there were the beaches, but my visits there were few and far between and there was nothing Swedish about them.

These days I have settled in Crescent City, California, a stone’s throw south of the Oregon border. I found a cabin a ten-minute walk from the Pacific and I have not looked back since. Clean air, lots of space, nearby redwoods. Not quite Sweden, but the next best thing.

But I have re-discovered the pleasures of open air.

I don’t know what research, if any, has been done relative to health, aging, and open air, but intuitively I’d say that living as close to nature as you can, and spending as much time as you can in the open air, will do no harm.

Quite the opposite.

Wolfstuff

So, who am I? Really really. I could tell you that I was born in northern Sweden during a snow storm, and subsequently…

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