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The Longevity Diet

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With 30 years of research, it's less diet and more long-term upgrade

Eat less, 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 interviews with centenarians are eye-openers

Fascinating, well-written and well-evidenced

Eat to live for ever (well nearly)!

If you're super busy, try [the] fasting-mimicking diet

With a five-day fasting plan, eating well can also help to turn back your biological clock

‘How to live to 100 . . . Longevity has become the new wellness watchword . . . nutrition is the key’ VOGUE

Fasting diets, such as the 5:2, took the world by storm but weren't sustainable due to the frequency of fasting. Longo's revolutionary research shows how to mimic fasting and The Longevity Diet implements this through FMD - a fasting-mimicking diet - which only limits your calorie intake for five days, up to four times a year. 
 
Not only will FMD rejuvenate the body and help weight loss, the focus of Longo's diet is to reduce the risk of illnesses such as diabetes, cancer and heart disease, and ultimately improve our health and extend our lifespan. 
 
Including 30 easy recipes for an everyday diet and the FMD plan, The Longevity Diet is the key to living a longer, healthier, fuller life.

LIVE HEALTHIER FOR LONGER WITH THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING GUIDE THAT WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE 
 
'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 
 
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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 
 
This is the 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 - discovered that the secret of longevity lies in cellular regeneration triggered by a special diet. 
 
And that by adhering to his fasting-mimicking diet, we can heal ourselves through food. 
 
The Longevity Diet will guide you through the process with: 
 
· An easy-to-adopt lifetime plan 
 
· Fasting-mimicking diet 3-4 times a year, just 5 days at a time 
 
· 30 easy and delicious recipes based on Longo's 'Five Pillars of Longevity' 
 
In this lifelong, health-boosting plan, you will feel the benefits of fasting without the hunger and live a longer, healthier and more fulfilled life. 
 
And you'll get to try easy, plant-and-fish based recipes . . . 
 
· Great for the heart and rich in antioxidants: black rice with courgette and shrimp 
 
· For a good source of iron, snack on dark chocolate and yoghurt 
 
· For dessert try tangy dried cranberries and walnuts

Dr Valter Longo was born in Genoa, Italy, in 1967. He is one of the world leaders in the field of aging and aging-related diseases and has published over 120 papers which include the discovery of some of the genes responsible for longevity and the identification of a genetic mutation protecting humans from some of the most common diseases. 
 
He is currently a professor of Biogerontology and Director of the Longevity Institute in the School of Gerontology at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. This is his first commercial book.

The Longevity Diet

‘How to live to 100 . . . Longevity has become the new wellness watchword . . . nutrition is the key’ VOGUE

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