Ornish in near agreement with Walford

[Guest guest]

Question: Your diet sounds very similar to Dr. Walford's Anti-Aging

Plan, except that his plan also promotes caloric restriction. Are you

familiar with his research, and do you have an opinion of his diet plan?

Answer [Dr. Ornish]: Dr. Walford has been a pioneer in studying the

aging process. The only strategy consistently found to lengthen the

life span of animals is caloric restriction. In some of Dr. Walford's

pioneering studies, he found that the life span of rodents could be

prolonged substantially by limiting the amount of calories available

to these animals. (Many of us would prefer to decrease the life span

of rodents, but that's another issue. ...)

The problem with caloric restriction, of course, is that you get

hungry. I believe that the most effective way to restrict calories is

to reduce the amount of fat in your diet. Since fat has nine calories

per grams whereas protein and carbohydrates have only four calories

per grams, when you reduce your fat intake from 40% to around 10%,

then you can eat the same amount of food yet consume far fewer

calories without feeling hungry or deprived.

The other way to reduce your intake of calories is to decrease the

amount of simple carbohydrates in your diet. You can only eat so many

apples before you're full, because the apple is so rich in fiber. But

you can consume virtually unlimited amounts of sugar without feeling

full at all. One bottle of soft drink contains up to 14 teaspoons of

sugar!

The diet Dr. Walford recommends is similar to the one I advise. It's a

near-vegetarian diet, based on whole foods, and very low in fat.

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Newsflash: Ornish has a sense of humor :B