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Summary: It worked for me!
Review: Dr. Walford's book passed the test!! I had suffered with high cholesterol, high blood pressure, high triglycerides for years and had to take several drugs to keep things in check. I tried the Zone, Atkins, and even a severely low fat, vegetarian diet. Even though I exercised and followed a very low fat diet losing all my excess weight, I could not control my blood cholesterol which was stubbornly high; although my blood pressure did come down to about 135/85. I have a strong hereditary condition that raises cholesterol to over 400, and no diets worked, so I resigned myself to a lifetime regimen of drugs until I read Dr. Walford's wonderful book! Please listen to me, this diet is phenomenol. My cholesterol dropped like a rock in space, and my blood pressure is currently 105/70 without drugs!! I feel great, like never before. My doctor is flabbergasted; he said, "you'll never be able to get off drugs with your hereditary propensity for high cholesterol." Many of the men in my family have died in their early forties from heart disease. I am currently 48 and doing just great and best of all my doctor had to eat his words!! My hdl/ldl ratio is 2.1 and all parameters are just fine all thanks to Dr. Walford. The only downside is that the diet is not for the fainthearted; it takes committment but once you get used to it, it becomes quite comfortable. If you really want health that's based on the best scientific evidence not hype and balony go with Dr. Walford. He is a great man with a lot of integrity and he will not mislead you like most of them do.
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Summary: It worked for me!
Review: Dr. Walford's book passed the test!! I had suffered with high cholesterol, high blood pressure, high triglycerides for years and had to take several drugs to keep things in check. I tried the Zone, Atkins, and even a severely low fat, vegetarian diet. Even though I exercised and followed a very low fat diet losing all my excess weight, I could not control my blood cholesterol which was stubbornly high; although my blood pressure did come down to about 135/85. I have a strong hereditary condition that raises cholesterol to over 400, and no diets worked, so I resigned myself to a lifetime regimen of drugs until I read Dr. Walford's wonderful book! Please listen to me, this diet is phenomenol. My cholesterol dropped like a rock in space, and my blood pressure is currently 105/70 without drugs!! I feel great, like never before. My doctor is flabbergasted; he said, "you'll never be able to get off drugs with your hereditary propensity for high cholesterol." Many of the men in my family have died in their early forties from heart disease. I am currently 48 and doing just great and best of all my doctor had to eat his words!! My hdl/ldl ratio is 2.1 and all parameters are just fine all thanks to Dr. Walford. The only downside is that the diet is not for the fainthearted; it takes committment but once you get used to it, it becomes quite comfortable. If you really want health that's based on the best scientific evidence not hype and balony go with Dr. Walford. He is a great man with a lot of integrity and he will not mislead you like most of them do.
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Summary: Let's be fair
Review: I agree that there is little scientific basis for being as restrictive as Walford wanted us to be. But to dismiss his arguments because he weakened and died from ALS (the same disease that afflicts Stephen Hawking) might be akin to dismissing them if he had been killed by a car or a lightning strike. Almost nothing is known about why ALS strikes anyone, and for all we know Walford might have weakened and died sooner had he led an average existence. People have been debating diet and health for centuries and will probably continue to do so for many decades to come; the scientific literature is simply not as decisive as many want to think. Walford perhaps drew conclusions too strong and made some extreme recommendations, but he was no worse than many diet writers.
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Summary: "120 Year Diet" Guru Dead at 79
Review: Roy Walford has died of Lou Gehrig's Disease. Or ALS. At 79. Far from the 120 years that he bragged he would attain. It seems his "120 Year Diet" did not work for him. If you look at picture of him at his own site, he looked awfully old. He was in declining health for most of the last decade. Needed a cane to walk many years ago before he became total invalid. And if you look at the picture put up by his devotees, Walford looked horribly prematurely aged. Walford's physical condition was first revealed in a Modern Maturity story. It pointed out: "For a man who plans to live forever, he's alarmingly feeble and cannot walk unaided. He moves around his kitchen by hanging from a series of straps slung overhead." (Modern Maturity, 2001) In a November 23, 2003, the New York Times wrote: "By almost anyone's standards, Dr. Roy Walford is an old man. At 79, he is confined to an electric wheelchair and his voice is so weak, he speaks into a microphone wired to a small tabletop amplifier....(Walford) is dying from the fatal nerve disorder known as Lou Gehrig's disease." To be fair, caloric restriction does work in all the specie tested so far. And is most likely to work in humans too. And Walford was a scientist who did important research. But a good scientist does not translate usually into a good anti-aging guru. **The question you have to ask is whether Walford's adaptation of caloric restriction is seriously flawed.** Might it be linked to his ALS? To his premature enfeeblement? To his premature aging? To his premature death? His regimen is a very tough one. And if the reward is merely 79 years, which many free-eating, free-drinking and even obese gourmands can achieve, then you have to wonder if it's worth it. Caloric restriction works. But the question is does caloric restriction as preached and practiced by Walford work? If your aim is to retard your aging and extend your lifespan through caloric restriction, you need to ask yourself whether it is possible that Walford did it the wrong way. And if those erros are part and parcel of his "anti-aging plan." And in this book. For the last 30 years of his life, Walford abstained from alcohol. He was fanatical about fat calories. And for the most part vegetarian. And he ate only 1600 calories. All this for a mere 79 years? And starting to get sick as early as in his sixties? Not very "anti-aging" if you ask me. The alternative? Well, to me it's The Elixxir Program. I can't speak for the author but it seems they are both based on the same science. But on The Elixxir Program, you can drink in moderation. Eat anything in moderation. And do away with all this Prohibitionism in Walford. In other words, you can have a life! I have found The ImmorTalist Manifesto by Elixxir to be a good start. It is not a diet book but provides the new anti-aging worldview you need for The Elixxir Program. And you can get it on Amazon. Visit Elixxir's site too. And get on the Yahoo mailing list called The ImmorTalist Chronicles if you can. Good luck in your anti-aging journey.
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Summary: "120 Year Diet" Guru Dead at 79
Review: Roy Walford has died of Lou Gehrig's Disease. Or ALS. At 79. Far from the 120 years that he bragged he would attain. It seems his "120 Year Diet" did not work for him. If you look at picture of him at his own site, he looked awfully old. He was in declining health for most of the last decade. Needed a cane to walk many years ago before he became total invalid. And if you look at the picture put up by his devotees, Walford looked horribly prematurely aged. Walford's physical condition was first revealed in a Modern Maturity story. It pointed out: "For a man who plans to live forever, he's alarmingly feeble and cannot walk unaided. He moves around his kitchen by hanging from a series of straps slung overhead." (Modern Maturity, 2001) In a November 23, 2003, the New York Times wrote: "By almost anyone's standards, Dr. Roy Walford is an old man. At 79, he is confined to an electric wheelchair and his voice is so weak, he speaks into a microphone wired to a small tabletop amplifier....(Walford) is dying from the fatal nerve disorder known as Lou Gehrig's disease." To be fair, caloric restriction does work in all the specie tested so far. And is most likely to work in humans too. And Walford was a scientist who did important research. But a good scientist does not translate usually into a good anti-aging guru. **The question you have to ask is whether Walford's adaptation of caloric restriction is seriously flawed.** Might it be linked to his ALS? To his premature enfeeblement? To his premature aging? To his premature death? His regimen is a very tough one. And if the reward is merely 79 years, which many free-eating, free-drinking and even obese gourmands can achieve, then you have to wonder if it's worth it. Caloric restriction works. But the question is does caloric restriction as preached and practiced by Walford work? If your aim is to retard your aging and extend your lifespan through caloric restriction, you need to ask yourself whether it is possible that Walford did it the wrong way. And if those erros are part and parcel of his "anti-aging plan." And in this book. For the last 30 years of his life, Walford abstained from alcohol. He was fanatical about fat calories. And for the most part vegetarian. And he ate only 1600 calories. All this for a mere 79 years? And starting to get sick as early as in his sixties? Not very "anti-aging" if you ask me. The alternative? Well, to me it's The Elixxir Program. I can't speak for the author but it seems they are both based on the same science. But on The Elixxir Program, you can drink in moderation. Eat anything in moderation. And do away with all this Prohibitionism in Walford. In other words, you can have a life! I have found The ImmorTalist Manifesto by Elixxir to be a good start. It is not a diet book but provides the new anti-aging worldview you need for The Elixxir Program. And you can get it on Amazon. Visit Elixxir's site too. And get on the Yahoo mailing list called The ImmorTalist Chronicles if you can. Good luck in your anti-aging journey.
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