The Billionaire Who Is Planning His 125th Birthday

[Guest guest]

*One morning in* early January, Murdock awoke to an unsettling

sensation. At first he didn’t recognize it and then he couldn’t believe it,

because for years — decades, really — he maintained what was, in his

immodest estimation, perfect health. But now there was this undeniable

imperfection, a scratchiness and swollenness familiar only from the distant

past. Incredibly, infuriatingly, he had a sore

throat<http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/symptoms/sore-throat/overview.htm\

l?inline=nyt-classifier>.

“I never have anything go wrong,” he said later. “Never have a

backache<http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/symptoms/back-pain-low/overview\

..html?inline=nyt-classifier>.

Never have a

headache<http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/symptoms/headache/overview.html\

?inline=nyt-classifier>.

Never have anything else.” This would make him a lucky man no matter his

age. Because he is 87, it makes him an unusually robust specimen, which is

what he must be if he is to defy the odds (and maybe even the gods) and live

as long as he intends to. He wants to reach 125, and sees no reason he

can’t, provided that he continues eating the way he has for the last quarter

century: with a methodical, messianic correctness that he believes can, and

will, ward off major disease and minor ailment alike.

So that sore throat wasn’t just an irritant. It was a challenge to the whole

gut-centered worldview on which his bid for extreme longevity rests. “I went

back in my mind: what am I not eating enough of?” he told me. Definitely not

fruits and vegetables: he crams as many as 20 of them, including pulverized

banana peels and the ground-up rinds of oranges, into the smoothies he

drinks two to three times a day, to keep his body brimming with fiber and

vitamins<http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/nutrition/vitamins/overview.htm\

l?inline=nyt-classifier>.

Probably not protein: he eats plenty of seafood, egg whites, beans and nuts

to compensate for his avoidance of dairy, red meat and poultry, which are

consigned to a list of forbidden foods that also includes alcohol, sugar and

salt.

“I couldn’t figure it out,” he said. So he made a frustrated peace with his

malady, which was gone in 36 hours and, he stressed, not all that bad. “I

wasn’t really struggling with it,” he said. “But my voice changed a little

bit. I always have a powerful voice.” Indeed, he speaks so loudly at times,

and in such a declamatory manner, that it cows people, who sometimes assume

they’ve angered him. “When I open my mouth,” he noted, “the room rings.”

The room ringing just then was the vast, stately common area of his vast,

stately North Carolina lodge, which sits on more than 500 acres of woods and

meadows where a flock of rare black Welsh sheep — which he keeps as pets,

certainly not as chops and cheese in the making — roam under the protection

of four Great Pyrenees dogs. He got the dogs after a donkey and two llamas

entrusted with guarding the flock from predators failed at the task. The

donkey and llamas still hang out with their fleecy charges, but they are

purely ornamental.

Murdock loves to collect things: animals, orchids, Chippendale mirrors,

Czechoslovakian chandeliers. He keeps yet another black Welsh flock at one

of his two homes in Southern California, a 2,200-acre ranch whose zoological

bounty extends to a herd of longhorn cattle, about 800 koi in a manmade lake

and 16 horses — down from a population of more than 550, most of them

Arabians, 35 years ago — with their own exercise pool. He has five homes in

all, one on the small Hawaiian island of Lanai, which he owns almost in its

entirety. He shuttles among them in a private jet. Forbes magazine’s most

recent list of the 400 richest Americans put him at No. 130, with an

estimated net worth of $2.7 billion, thanks to real estate development and

majority stakes in an array of companies, most notably Dole. Five years

earlier the estimate was $4.2 billion, but the recession took its toll.

His affluence has enabled him to turn his private fixation on diet and

longevity into a public one. I went to see him first in North Carolina in

late January. It is there, outside of Charlotte, in a city named Kannapolis

near his lodge, that he has spent some $500 million of his fortune in recent

years to construct the North Carolina Research Campus, a scientific center

dedicated to his conviction that plants, eaten in copious quantities and the

right variety, hold the promise of optimal health and maximal life span. The

campus is a grand and grandiose sight, a cluster of mammoth Georgian-style

buildings that dwarf everything around them. They call to mind an august,

aged university, but the brick is without blemish, and there is no ivy.

Inside are world-class laboratories with cutting-edge equipment and emblems

of the ostentation with which Murdock approaches much of what he does. He

made two separate trips to the mountaintop quarries in Carrara, Italy, to

select the 125 tons of off-white marble that cover the floor and even the

walls of the central atrium of the main building, called the H.

Murdock Core Laboratory. He also commissioned, for the atrium’s dome, an

enormous painted mural with outsize, hypervivid representations of about two

dozen foods at the center of his diet, including grapes as large as

Frisbees, radishes bigger than beach balls and a pineapple the size of a

schooner. This kaleidoscopic orgy of antioxidants is presented as a wreath

around a soaring eagle, whose wingspan was lengthened at the last minute, to

about 18 feet from 12, at his request. The bird symbolizes him.

Read the rest here @

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ysheadlines & emc=tha210>(access

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Check out my blog: mixture of deals and nutrition

New Giveaway: The Everything Mediterranean Diet Book: All you need to lose

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Noon<http://thefrugaldietitian.com/?p=16061>Made

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student <

*Healthy Diet at any Age: We are NOT just looking

*

*at the years people have behind them but also the

*

*quality of the years ahead of them.*

[Guest guest]

Thanks,

Sent from my iPhone

> *One morning in* early January, Murdock awoke to an unsettling

> sensation. At first he didn’t recognize it and then he couldn’t

> believe it,

> because for years — decades, really — he maintained what was, in h

> is

> immodest estimation, perfect health. But now there was this undeniable

> imperfection, a scratchiness and swollenness familiar only from the

> distant

> past. Incredibly, infuriatingly, he had a sore

>

throat<http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/symptoms/sore-throat/overview.htm\

l?inline=nyt-classifier

> >.

>

>

> “I never have anything go wrong,†he said later. “Never have a

>

backache<http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/symptoms/back-pain-low/overview\

..html?inline=nyt-classifier

> >.

> Never have a

headache<http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/symptoms/headache/overview.html\

?inline=nyt-classifier

> >.

> Never have anything else.†This would make him a lucky man no matter

> his

> age. Because he is 87, it makes him an unusually robust specimen,

> which is

> what he must be if he is to defy the odds (and maybe even the gods)

> and live

> as long as he intends to. He wants to reach 125, and sees no reason he

> can’t, provided that he continues eating the way he has for the last

> quarter

> century: with a methodical, messianic correctness that he believes

> can, and

> will, ward off major disease and minor ailment alike.

>

> So that sore throat wasn’t just an irritant. It was a challenge to t

> he whole

> gut-centered worldview on which his bid for extreme longevity rests.

> “I went

> back in my mind: what am I not eating enough of?†he told me. Defini

> tely not

> fruits and vegetables: he crams as many as 20 of them, including

> pulverized

> banana peels and the ground-up rinds of oranges, into the smoothies he

> drinks two to three times a day, to keep his body brimming with

> fiber and

>

vitamins<http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/nutrition/vitamins/overview.htm\

l?inline=nyt-classifier

> >.

> Probably not protein: he eats plenty of seafood, egg whites, beans

> and nuts

> to compensate for his avoidance of dairy, red meat and poultry,

> which are

> consigned to a list of forbidden foods that also includes alcohol,

> sugar and

> salt.

>

> “I couldn’t figure it out,†he said. So he made a frustrated

> peace with his

> malady, which was gone in 36 hours and, he stressed, not all that

> bad. “I

> wasn’t really struggling with it,†he said. “But my voice

> changed a little

> bit. I always have a powerful voice.†Indeed, he speaks so loudly at

> times,

> and in such a declamatory manner, that it cows people, who sometimes

> assume

> they’ve angered him. “When I open my mouth,†he noted, “the

> room rings.â€

>

> The room ringing just then was the vast, stately common area of his

> vast,

> stately North Carolina lodge, which sits on more than 500 acres of

> woods and

> meadows where a flock of rare black Welsh sheep — which he keeps as

> pets,

> certainly not as chops and cheese in the making — roam under the pro

> tection

> of four Great Pyrenees dogs. He got the dogs after a donkey and two

> llamas

> entrusted with guarding the flock from predators failed at the task.

> The

> donkey and llamas still hang out with their fleecy charges, but they

> are

> purely ornamental.

>

> Murdock loves to collect things: animals, orchids, Chippendale

> mirrors,

> Czechoslovakian chandeliers. He keeps yet another black Welsh flock

> at one

> of his two homes in Southern California, a 2,200-acre ranch whose

> zoological

> bounty extends to a herd of longhorn cattle, about 800 koi in a

> manmade lake

> and 16 horses — down from a population of more than 550, most of th

> em

> Arabians, 35 years ago — with their own exercise pool. He has five h

> omes in

> all, one on the small Hawaiian island of Lanai, which he owns almost

> in its

> entirety. He shuttles among them in a private jet. Forbes magazine’s

> most

> recent list of the 400 richest Americans put him at No. 130, with an

> estimated net worth of $2.7 billion, thanks to real estate

> development and

> majority stakes in an array of companies, most notably Dole. Five

> years

> earlier the estimate was $4.2 billion, but the recession took its

> toll.

>

> His affluence has enabled him to turn his private fixation on diet and

> longevity into a public one. I went to see him first in North

> Carolina in

> late January. It is there, outside of Charlotte, in a city named

> Kannapolis

> near his lodge, that he has spent some $500 million of his fortune

> in recent

> years to construct the North Carolina Research Campus, a scientific

> center

> dedicated to his conviction that plants, eaten in copious quantities

> and the

> right variety, hold the promise of optimal health and maximal life

> span. The

> campus is a grand and grandiose sight, a cluster of mammoth Georgian-

> style

> buildings that dwarf everything around them. They call to mind an

> august,

> aged university, but the brick is without blemish, and there is no

> ivy.

>

> Inside are world-class laboratories with cutting-edge equipment and

> emblems

> of the ostentation with which Murdock approaches much of what he

> does. He

> made two separate trips to the mountaintop quarries in Carrara,

> Italy, to

> select the 125 tons of off-white marble that cover the floor and

> even the

> walls of the central atrium of the main building, called the H.

> Murdock Core Laboratory. He also commissioned, for the atrium’s dome

> , an

> enormous painted mural with outsize, hypervivid representations of

> about two

> dozen foods at the center of his diet, including grapes as large as

> Frisbees, radishes bigger than beach balls and a pineapple the size

> of a

> schooner. This kaleidoscopic orgy of antioxidants is presented as a

> wreath

> around a soaring eagle, whose wingspan was lengthened at the last

> minute, to

> about 18 feet from 12, at his request. The bird symbolizes him.

> Read the rest here @

>

NYTimes<http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/06/magazine/06murdock-t.html?_r=1 & nl=toda\

ysheadlines & emc=tha210

> >(access

> may require a free registration)

>

> --

> Ortiz, MS, RD

> *The FRUGAL Dietitian* <http://www.thefrugaldietitian.com>

> Check out my blog: mixture of deals and nutrition

> New Giveaway: The Everything Mediterranean Diet Book: All you need

> to lose

> weight and stay healthy! Ends:3/9 @

> Noon<http://thefrugaldietitian.com/?p=16061>Made

> my own " funny but real " movie: Me interviewing a " potential " Dietetic

> student <

>

> *Healthy Diet at any Age: We are NOT just looking

> *

>

> *at the years people have behind them but also the

> *

>

> *quality of the years ahead of them.*

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

Thanks,

Sent from my iPhone

> *One morning in* early January, Murdock awoke to an unsettling

> sensation. At first he didn’t recognize it and then he couldn’t

> believe it,

> because for years — decades, really — he maintained what was, in h

> is

> immodest estimation, perfect health. But now there was this undeniable

> imperfection, a scratchiness and swollenness familiar only from the

> distant

> past. Incredibly, infuriatingly, he had a sore

>

throat<http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/symptoms/sore-throat/overview.htm\

l?inline=nyt-classifier

> >.

>

>

> “I never have anything go wrong,†he said later. “Never have a

>

backache<http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/symptoms/back-pain-low/overview\

..html?inline=nyt-classifier

> >.

> Never have a

headache<http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/symptoms/headache/overview.html\

?inline=nyt-classifier

> >.

> Never have anything else.†This would make him a lucky man no matter

> his

> age. Because he is 87, it makes him an unusually robust specimen,

> which is

> what he must be if he is to defy the odds (and maybe even the gods)

> and live

> as long as he intends to. He wants to reach 125, and sees no reason he

> can’t, provided that he continues eating the way he has for the last

> quarter

> century: with a methodical, messianic correctness that he believes

> can, and

> will, ward off major disease and minor ailment alike.

>

> So that sore throat wasn’t just an irritant. It was a challenge to t

> he whole

> gut-centered worldview on which his bid for extreme longevity rests.

> “I went

> back in my mind: what am I not eating enough of?†he told me. Defini

> tely not

> fruits and vegetables: he crams as many as 20 of them, including

> pulverized

> banana peels and the ground-up rinds of oranges, into the smoothies he

> drinks two to three times a day, to keep his body brimming with

> fiber and

>

vitamins<http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/nutrition/vitamins/overview.htm\

l?inline=nyt-classifier

> >.

> Probably not protein: he eats plenty of seafood, egg whites, beans

> and nuts

> to compensate for his avoidance of dairy, red meat and poultry,

> which are

> consigned to a list of forbidden foods that also includes alcohol,

> sugar and

> salt.

>

> “I couldn’t figure it out,†he said. So he made a frustrated

> peace with his

> malady, which was gone in 36 hours and, he stressed, not all that

> bad. “I

> wasn’t really struggling with it,†he said. “But my voice

> changed a little

> bit. I always have a powerful voice.†Indeed, he speaks so loudly at

> times,

> and in such a declamatory manner, that it cows people, who sometimes

> assume

> they’ve angered him. “When I open my mouth,†he noted, “the

> room rings.â€

>

> The room ringing just then was the vast, stately common area of his

> vast,

> stately North Carolina lodge, which sits on more than 500 acres of

> woods and

> meadows where a flock of rare black Welsh sheep — which he keeps as

> pets,

> certainly not as chops and cheese in the making — roam under the pro

> tection

> of four Great Pyrenees dogs. He got the dogs after a donkey and two

> llamas

> entrusted with guarding the flock from predators failed at the task.

> The

> donkey and llamas still hang out with their fleecy charges, but they

> are

> purely ornamental.

>

> Murdock loves to collect things: animals, orchids, Chippendale

> mirrors,

> Czechoslovakian chandeliers. He keeps yet another black Welsh flock

> at one

> of his two homes in Southern California, a 2,200-acre ranch whose

> zoological

> bounty extends to a herd of longhorn cattle, about 800 koi in a

> manmade lake

> and 16 horses — down from a population of more than 550, most of th

> em

> Arabians, 35 years ago — with their own exercise pool. He has five h

> omes in

> all, one on the small Hawaiian island of Lanai, which he owns almost

> in its

> entirety. He shuttles among them in a private jet. Forbes magazine’s

> most

> recent list of the 400 richest Americans put him at No. 130, with an

> estimated net worth of $2.7 billion, thanks to real estate

> development and

> majority stakes in an array of companies, most notably Dole. Five

> years

> earlier the estimate was $4.2 billion, but the recession took its

> toll.

>

> His affluence has enabled him to turn his private fixation on diet and

> longevity into a public one. I went to see him first in North

> Carolina in

> late January. It is there, outside of Charlotte, in a city named

> Kannapolis

> near his lodge, that he has spent some $500 million of his fortune

> in recent

> years to construct the North Carolina Research Campus, a scientific

> center

> dedicated to his conviction that plants, eaten in copious quantities

> and the

> right variety, hold the promise of optimal health and maximal life

> span. The

> campus is a grand and grandiose sight, a cluster of mammoth Georgian-

> style

> buildings that dwarf everything around them. They call to mind an

> august,

> aged university, but the brick is without blemish, and there is no

> ivy.

>

> Inside are world-class laboratories with cutting-edge equipment and

> emblems

> of the ostentation with which Murdock approaches much of what he

> does. He

> made two separate trips to the mountaintop quarries in Carrara,

> Italy, to

> select the 125 tons of off-white marble that cover the floor and

> even the

> walls of the central atrium of the main building, called the H.

> Murdock Core Laboratory. He also commissioned, for the atrium’s dome

> , an

> enormous painted mural with outsize, hypervivid representations of

> about two

> dozen foods at the center of his diet, including grapes as large as

> Frisbees, radishes bigger than beach balls and a pineapple the size

> of a

> schooner. This kaleidoscopic orgy of antioxidants is presented as a

> wreath

> around a soaring eagle, whose wingspan was lengthened at the last

> minute, to

> about 18 feet from 12, at his request. The bird symbolizes him.

> Read the rest here @

>

NYTimes<http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/06/magazine/06murdock-t.html?_r=1 & nl=toda\

ysheadlines & emc=tha210

> >(access

> may require a free registration)

>

> --

> Ortiz, MS, RD

> *The FRUGAL Dietitian* <http://www.thefrugaldietitian.com>

> Check out my blog: mixture of deals and nutrition

> New Giveaway: The Everything Mediterranean Diet Book: All you need

> to lose

> weight and stay healthy! Ends:3/9 @

> Noon<http://thefrugaldietitian.com/?p=16061>Made

> my own " funny but real " movie: Me interviewing a " potential " Dietetic

> student <

>

> *Healthy Diet at any Age: We are NOT just looking

> *

>

> *at the years people have behind them but also the

> *

>

> *quality of the years ahead of them.*

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

I wonder if he is looking for a dietitian - I can throw odd things in a blender

and even paint a bad mural - maybe even simultaneously if I use the right

ingredients - post impressionist banana peel art world watch out.

R Vajda, R.D.

________________________________

To: " rd-usa " <rd-usa >

Sent: Sun, March 6, 2011 5:20:12 PM

Subject: Re: The Billionaire Who Is Planning His 125th Birthday

Thanks,

Sent from my iPhone

> *One morning in* early January, Murdock awoke to an unsettling

> sensation. At first he didn’t recognize it and then he couldn’t

> believe it,

> because for years — decades, really — he maintained what was, in h

> is

> immodest estimation, perfect health. But now there was this undeniable

> imperfection, a scratchiness and swollenness familiar only from the

> distant

> past. Incredibly, infuriatingly, he had a sore

>throat<http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/symptoms/sore-throat/overview.ht\

ml?inline=nyt-classifier

>r

>

> >.

>

>

> “I never have anything go wrong,†he said later. “Never have a

>backache<http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/symptoms/back-pain-low/overvie\

w.html?inline=nyt-classifier

>r

>

> >.

> Never have a

>headache<http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/symptoms/headache/overview.htm\

l?inline=nyt-classifier

>

> >.

> Never have anything else.†This would make him a lucky man no matter

> his

> age. Because he is 87, it makes him an unusually robust specimen,

> which is

> what he must be if he is to defy the odds (and maybe even the gods)

> and live

> as long as he intends to. He wants to reach 125, and sees no reason he

> can’t, provided that he continues eating the way he has for the last

> quarter

> century: with a methodical, messianic correctness that he believes

> can, and

> will, ward off major disease and minor ailment alike.

>

> So that sore throat wasn’t just an irritant. It was a challenge to t

> he whole

> gut-centered worldview on which his bid for extreme longevity rests.

> “I went

> back in my mind: what am I not eating enough of?†he told me. Defini

> tely not

> fruits and vegetables: he crams as many as 20 of them, including

> pulverized

> banana peels and the ground-up rinds of oranges, into the smoothies he

> drinks two to three times a day, to keep his body brimming with

> fiber and

>vitamins<http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/nutrition/vitamins/overview.ht\

ml?inline=nyt-classifier

>r

>

> >.

> Probably not protein: he eats plenty of seafood, egg whites, beans

> and nuts

> to compensate for his avoidance of dairy, red meat and poultry,

> which are

> consigned to a list of forbidden foods that also includes alcohol,

> sugar and

> salt.

>

> “I couldn’t figure it out,†he said. So he made a frustrated

> peace with his

> malady, which was gone in 36 hours and, he stressed, not all that

> bad. “I

> wasn’t really struggling with it,†he said. “But my voice

> changed a little

> bit. I always have a powerful voice.†Indeed, he speaks so loudly at

> times,

> and in such a declamatory manner, that it cows people, who sometimes

> assume

> they’ve angered him. “When I open my mouth,†he noted, “the

> room rings.â€

>

> The room ringing just then was the vast, stately common area of his

> vast,

> stately North Carolina lodge, which sits on more than 500 acres of

> woods and

> meadows where a flock of rare black Welsh sheep — which he keeps as

> pets,

> certainly not as chops and cheese in the making — roam under the pro

> tection

> of four Great Pyrenees dogs. He got the dogs after a donkey and two

> llamas

> entrusted with guarding the flock from predators failed at the task.

> The

> donkey and llamas still hang out with their fleecy charges, but they

> are

> purely ornamental.

>

> Murdock loves to collect things: animals, orchids, Chippendale

> mirrors,

> Czechoslovakian chandeliers. He keeps yet another black Welsh flock

> at one

> of his two homes in Southern California, a 2,200-acre ranch whose

> zoological

> bounty extends to a herd of longhorn cattle, about 800 koi in a

> manmade lake

> and 16 horses — down from a population of more than 550, most of th

> em

> Arabians, 35 years ago — with their own exercise pool. He has five h

> omes in

> all, one on the small Hawaiian island of Lanai, which he owns almost

> in its

> entirety. He shuttles among them in a private jet. Forbes magazine’s

> most

> recent list of the 400 richest Americans put him at No. 130, with an

> estimated net worth of $2.7 billion, thanks to real estate

> development and

> majority stakes in an array of companies, most notably Dole. Five

> years

> earlier the estimate was $4.2 billion, but the recession took its

> toll.

>

> His affluence has enabled him to turn his private fixation on diet and

> longevity into a public one. I went to see him first in North

> Carolina in

> late January. It is there, outside of Charlotte, in a city named

> Kannapolis

> near his lodge, that he has spent some $500 million of his fortune

> in recent

> years to construct the North Carolina Research Campus, a scientific

> center

> dedicated to his conviction that plants, eaten in copious quantities

> and the

> right variety, hold the promise of optimal health and maximal life

> span. The

> campus is a grand and grandiose sight, a cluster of mammoth Georgian-

> style

> buildings that dwarf everything around them. They call to mind an

> august,

> aged university, but the brick is without blemish, and there is no

> ivy.

>

> Inside are world-class laboratories with cutting-edge equipment and

> emblems

> of the ostentation with which Murdock approaches much of what he

> does. He

> made two separate trips to the mountaintop quarries in Carrara,

> Italy, to

> select the 125 tons of off-white marble that cover the floor and

> even the

> walls of the central atrium of the main building, called the H.

> Murdock Core Laboratory. He also commissioned, for the atrium’s dome

> , an

> enormous painted mural with outsize, hypervivid representations of

> about two

> dozen foods at the center of his diet, including grapes as large as

> Frisbees, radishes bigger than beach balls and a pineapple the size

> of a

> schooner. This kaleidoscopic orgy of antioxidants is presented as a

> wreath

> around a soaring eagle, whose wingspan was lengthened at the last

> minute, to

> about 18 feet from 12, at his request. The bird symbolizes him.

> Read the rest here @

>NYTimes<http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/06/magazine/06murdock-t.html?_r=1 & nl=tod\

aysheadlines & emc=tha210

>0

>

> >(access

> may require a free registration)

>

> --

> Ortiz, MS, RD

> *The FRUGAL Dietitian* <http://www.thefrugaldietitian.com>

> Check out my blog: mixture of deals and nutrition

> New Giveaway: The Everything Mediterranean Diet Book: All you need

> to lose

> weight and stay healthy! Ends:3/9 @

> Noon<http://thefrugaldietitian.com/?p=16061>Made

> my own " funny but real " movie: Me interviewing a " potential " Dietetic

> student <

>

> *Healthy Diet at any Age: We are NOT just looking

> *

>

> *at the years people have behind them but also the

> *

>

> *quality of the years ahead of them.*

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

I wonder if he is looking for a dietitian - I can throw odd things in a blender

and even paint a bad mural - maybe even simultaneously if I use the right

ingredients - post impressionist banana peel art world watch out.

R Vajda, R.D.

________________________________

To: " rd-usa " <rd-usa >

Sent: Sun, March 6, 2011 5:20:12 PM

Subject: Re: The Billionaire Who Is Planning His 125th Birthday

Thanks,

Sent from my iPhone

> *One morning in* early January, Murdock awoke to an unsettling

> sensation. At first he didn’t recognize it and then he couldn’t

> believe it,

> because for years — decades, really — he maintained what was, in h

> is

> immodest estimation, perfect health. But now there was this undeniable

> imperfection, a scratchiness and swollenness familiar only from the

> distant

> past. Incredibly, infuriatingly, he had a sore

>throat<http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/symptoms/sore-throat/overview.ht\

ml?inline=nyt-classifier

>r

>

> >.

>

>

> “I never have anything go wrong,†he said later. “Never have a

>backache<http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/symptoms/back-pain-low/overvie\

w.html?inline=nyt-classifier

>r

>

> >.

> Never have a

>headache<http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/symptoms/headache/overview.htm\

l?inline=nyt-classifier

>

> >.

> Never have anything else.†This would make him a lucky man no matter

> his

> age. Because he is 87, it makes him an unusually robust specimen,

> which is

> what he must be if he is to defy the odds (and maybe even the gods)

> and live

> as long as he intends to. He wants to reach 125, and sees no reason he

> can’t, provided that he continues eating the way he has for the last

> quarter

> century: with a methodical, messianic correctness that he believes

> can, and

> will, ward off major disease and minor ailment alike.

>

> So that sore throat wasn’t just an irritant. It was a challenge to t

> he whole

> gut-centered worldview on which his bid for extreme longevity rests.

> “I went

> back in my mind: what am I not eating enough of?†he told me. Defini

> tely not

> fruits and vegetables: he crams as many as 20 of them, including

> pulverized

> banana peels and the ground-up rinds of oranges, into the smoothies he

> drinks two to three times a day, to keep his body brimming with

> fiber and

>vitamins<http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/nutrition/vitamins/overview.ht\

ml?inline=nyt-classifier

>r

>

> >.

> Probably not protein: he eats plenty of seafood, egg whites, beans

> and nuts

> to compensate for his avoidance of dairy, red meat and poultry,

> which are

> consigned to a list of forbidden foods that also includes alcohol,

> sugar and

> salt.

>

> “I couldn’t figure it out,†he said. So he made a frustrated

> peace with his

> malady, which was gone in 36 hours and, he stressed, not all that

> bad. “I

> wasn’t really struggling with it,†he said. “But my voice

> changed a little

> bit. I always have a powerful voice.†Indeed, he speaks so loudly at

> times,

> and in such a declamatory manner, that it cows people, who sometimes

> assume

> they’ve angered him. “When I open my mouth,†he noted, “the

> room rings.â€

>

> The room ringing just then was the vast, stately common area of his

> vast,

> stately North Carolina lodge, which sits on more than 500 acres of

> woods and

> meadows where a flock of rare black Welsh sheep — which he keeps as

> pets,

> certainly not as chops and cheese in the making — roam under the pro

> tection

> of four Great Pyrenees dogs. He got the dogs after a donkey and two

> llamas

> entrusted with guarding the flock from predators failed at the task.

> The

> donkey and llamas still hang out with their fleecy charges, but they

> are

> purely ornamental.

>

> Murdock loves to collect things: animals, orchids, Chippendale

> mirrors,

> Czechoslovakian chandeliers. He keeps yet another black Welsh flock

> at one

> of his two homes in Southern California, a 2,200-acre ranch whose

> zoological

> bounty extends to a herd of longhorn cattle, about 800 koi in a

> manmade lake

> and 16 horses — down from a population of more than 550, most of th

> em

> Arabians, 35 years ago — with their own exercise pool. He has five h

> omes in

> all, one on the small Hawaiian island of Lanai, which he owns almost

> in its

> entirety. He shuttles among them in a private jet. Forbes magazine’s

> most

> recent list of the 400 richest Americans put him at No. 130, with an

> estimated net worth of $2.7 billion, thanks to real estate

> development and

> majority stakes in an array of companies, most notably Dole. Five

> years

> earlier the estimate was $4.2 billion, but the recession took its

> toll.

>

> His affluence has enabled him to turn his private fixation on diet and

> longevity into a public one. I went to see him first in North

> Carolina in

> late January. It is there, outside of Charlotte, in a city named

> Kannapolis

> near his lodge, that he has spent some $500 million of his fortune

> in recent

> years to construct the North Carolina Research Campus, a scientific

> center

> dedicated to his conviction that plants, eaten in copious quantities

> and the

> right variety, hold the promise of optimal health and maximal life

> span. The

> campus is a grand and grandiose sight, a cluster of mammoth Georgian-

> style

> buildings that dwarf everything around them. They call to mind an

> august,

> aged university, but the brick is without blemish, and there is no

> ivy.

>

> Inside are world-class laboratories with cutting-edge equipment and

> emblems

> of the ostentation with which Murdock approaches much of what he

> does. He

> made two separate trips to the mountaintop quarries in Carrara,

> Italy, to

> select the 125 tons of off-white marble that cover the floor and

> even the

> walls of the central atrium of the main building, called the H.

> Murdock Core Laboratory. He also commissioned, for the atrium’s dome

> , an

> enormous painted mural with outsize, hypervivid representations of

> about two

> dozen foods at the center of his diet, including grapes as large as

> Frisbees, radishes bigger than beach balls and a pineapple the size

> of a

> schooner. This kaleidoscopic orgy of antioxidants is presented as a

> wreath

> around a soaring eagle, whose wingspan was lengthened at the last

> minute, to

> about 18 feet from 12, at his request. The bird symbolizes him.

> Read the rest here @

>NYTimes<http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/06/magazine/06murdock-t.html?_r=1 & nl=tod\

aysheadlines & emc=tha210

>0

>

> >(access

> may require a free registration)

>

> --

> Ortiz, MS, RD

> *The FRUGAL Dietitian* <http://www.thefrugaldietitian.com>

> Check out my blog: mixture of deals and nutrition

> New Giveaway: The Everything Mediterranean Diet Book: All you need

> to lose

> weight and stay healthy! Ends:3/9 @

> Noon<http://thefrugaldietitian.com/?p=16061>Made

> my own " funny but real " movie: Me interviewing a " potential " Dietetic

> student <

>

> *Healthy Diet at any Age: We are NOT just looking

> *

>

> *at the years people have behind them but also the

> *

>

> *quality of the years ahead of them.*

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

Maybe if you are looking to be his 6th wife :-)

On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 7:37 PM, Vajda wrote:

>

>

> I wonder if he is looking for a dietitian - I can throw odd things in a

> blender

> and even paint a bad mural - maybe even simultaneously if I use the right

> ingredients - post impressionist banana peel art world watch out.

>

> R Vajda, R.D.

>

>

> ________________________________

>

> To: " rd-usa " <rd-usa >

> Sent: Sun, March 6, 2011 5:20:12 PM

> Subject: Re: The Billionaire Who Is Planning His 125th Birthday

>

>

> Thanks,

>

> Sent from my iPhone

>

>

>

> > *One morning in* early January, Murdock awoke to an unsettling

> > sensation. At first he didn’t recognize it and then he couldn’t

> > believe it,

> > because for years — decades, really — he maintained what was, in h

> > is

> > immodest estimation, perfect health. But now there was this undeniable

> > imperfection, a scratchiness and swollenness familiar only from the

> > distant

> > past. Incredibly, infuriatingly, he had a sore

> >throat<

>

http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/symptoms/sore-throat/overview.html?inlin\

e=nyt-classifier

> >r

> >

> > >.

> >

> >

> > “I never have anything go wrong,” he said later. “Never have a

> >backache<

>

http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/symptoms/back-pain-low/overview.html?inl\

ine=nyt-classifier

> >r

> >

> > >.

> > Never have a

> >headache<

>

http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/symptoms/headache/overview.html?inline=n\

yt-classifier

> >

> > >.

> > Never have anything else.” This would make him a lucky man no matter

> > his

> > age. Because he is 87, it makes him an unusually robust specimen,

> > which is

> > what he must be if he is to defy the odds (and maybe even the gods)

> > and live

> > as long as he intends to. He wants to reach 125, and sees no reason he

> > can’t, provided that he continues eating the way he has for the last

> > quarter

> > century: with a methodical, messianic correctness that he believes

> > can, and

> > will, ward off major disease and minor ailment alike.

> >

> > So that sore throat wasn’t just an irritant. It was a challenge to t

> > he whole

> > gut-centered worldview on which his bid for extreme longevity rests.

> > “I went

> > back in my mind: what am I not eating enough of?” he told me. Defini

> > tely not

> > fruits and vegetables: he crams as many as 20 of them, including

> > pulverized

> > banana peels and the ground-up rinds of oranges, into the smoothies he

> > drinks two to three times a day, to keep his body brimming with

> > fiber and

> >vitamins<

>

http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/nutrition/vitamins/overview.html?inline=\

nyt-classifier

> >r

> >

> > >.

> > Probably not protein: he eats plenty of seafood, egg whites, beans

> > and nuts

> > to compensate for his avoidance of dairy, red meat and poultry,

> > which are

> > consigned to a list of forbidden foods that also includes alcohol,

> > sugar and

> > salt.

> >

> > “I couldn’t figure it out,” he said. So he made a frustrated

> > peace with his

> > malady, which was gone in 36 hours and, he stressed, not all that

> > bad. “I

> > wasn’t really struggling with it,” he said. “But my voice

> > changed a little

> > bit. I always have a powerful voice.” Indeed, he speaks so loudly at

> > times,

> > and in such a declamatory manner, that it cows people, who sometimes

> > assume

> > they’ve angered him. “When I open my mouth,” he noted, “the

> > room rings.”

> >

> > The room ringing just then was the vast, stately common area of his

> > vast,

> > stately North Carolina lodge, which sits on more than 500 acres of

> > woods and

> > meadows where a flock of rare black Welsh sheep — which he keeps as

> > pets,

> > certainly not as chops and cheese in the making — roam under the pro

> > tection

> > of four Great Pyrenees dogs. He got the dogs after a donkey and two

> > llamas

> > entrusted with guarding the flock from predators failed at the task.

> > The

> > donkey and llamas still hang out with their fleecy charges, but they

> > are

> > purely ornamental.

> >

> > Murdock loves to collect things: animals, orchids, Chippendale

> > mirrors,

> > Czechoslovakian chandeliers. He keeps yet another black Welsh flock

> > at one

> > of his two homes in Southern California, a 2,200-acre ranch whose

> > zoological

> > bounty extends to a herd of longhorn cattle, about 800 koi in a

> > manmade lake

> > and 16 horses — down from a population of more than 550, most of th

> > em

> > Arabians, 35 years ago — with their own exercise pool. He has five h

> > omes in

> > all, one on the small Hawaiian island of Lanai, which he owns almost

> > in its

> > entirety. He shuttles among them in a private jet. Forbes magazine’s

> > most

> > recent list of the 400 richest Americans put him at No. 130, with an

> > estimated net worth of $2.7 billion, thanks to real estate

> > development and

> > majority stakes in an array of companies, most notably Dole. Five

> > years

> > earlier the estimate was $4.2 billion, but the recession took its

> > toll.

> >

> > His affluence has enabled him to turn his private fixation on diet and

> > longevity into a public one. I went to see him first in North

> > Carolina in

> > late January. It is there, outside of Charlotte, in a city named

> > Kannapolis

> > near his lodge, that he has spent some $500 million of his fortune

> > in recent

> > years to construct the North Carolina Research Campus, a scientific

> > center

> > dedicated to his conviction that plants, eaten in copious quantities

> > and the

> > right variety, hold the promise of optimal health and maximal life

> > span. The

> > campus is a grand and grandiose sight, a cluster of mammoth Georgian-

> > style

> > buildings that dwarf everything around them. They call to mind an

> > august,

> > aged university, but the brick is without blemish, and there is no

> > ivy.

> >

> > Inside are world-class laboratories with cutting-edge equipment and

> > emblems

> > of the ostentation with which Murdock approaches much of what he

> > does. He

> > made two separate trips to the mountaintop quarries in Carrara,

> > Italy, to

> > select the 125 tons of off-white marble that cover the floor and

> > even the

> > walls of the central atrium of the main building, called the H.

> > Murdock Core Laboratory. He also commissioned, for the atrium’s dome

> > , an

> > enormous painted mural with outsize, hypervivid representations of

> > about two

> > dozen foods at the center of his diet, including grapes as large as

> > Frisbees, radishes bigger than beach balls and a pineapple the size

> > of a

> > schooner. This kaleidoscopic orgy of antioxidants is presented as a

> > wreath

> > around a soaring eagle, whose wingspan was lengthened at the last

> > minute, to

> > about 18 feet from 12, at his request. The bird symbolizes him.

> > Read the rest here @

> >NYTimes<

>

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/06/magazine/06murdock-t.html?_r=1 & nl=todaysheadli\

nes & emc=tha210

> >0

> >

> > >(access

> > may require a free registration)

> >

> > --

> > Ortiz, MS, RD

> > *The FRUGAL Dietitian* <http://www.thefrugaldietitian.com>

> > Check out my blog: mixture of deals and nutrition

> > New Giveaway: The Everything Mediterranean Diet Book: All you need

> > to lose

> > weight and stay healthy! Ends:3/9 @

> > Noon<http://thefrugaldietitian.com/?p=16061>Made

> > my own " funny but real " movie: Me interviewing a " potential " Dietetic

> > student <

> >

> > *Healthy Diet at any Age: We are NOT just looking

> > *

> >

> > *at the years people have behind them but also the

> > *

> >

> > *quality of the years ahead of them.*

> >

> >

> >

[Guest guest]

Maybe if you are looking to be his 6th wife :-)

On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 7:37 PM, Vajda wrote:

>

>

> I wonder if he is looking for a dietitian - I can throw odd things in a

> blender

> and even paint a bad mural - maybe even simultaneously if I use the right

> ingredients - post impressionist banana peel art world watch out.

>

> R Vajda, R.D.

>

>

> ________________________________

>

> To: " rd-usa " <rd-usa >

> Sent: Sun, March 6, 2011 5:20:12 PM

> Subject: Re: The Billionaire Who Is Planning His 125th Birthday

>

>

> Thanks,

>

> Sent from my iPhone

>

>

>

> > *One morning in* early January, Murdock awoke to an unsettling

> > sensation. At first he didn’t recognize it and then he couldn’t

> > believe it,

> > because for years — decades, really — he maintained what was, in h

> > is

> > immodest estimation, perfect health. But now there was this undeniable

> > imperfection, a scratchiness and swollenness familiar only from the

> > distant

> > past. Incredibly, infuriatingly, he had a sore

> >throat<

>

http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/symptoms/sore-throat/overview.html?inlin\

e=nyt-classifier

> >r

> >

> > >.

> >

> >

> > “I never have anything go wrong,” he said later. “Never have a

> >backache<

>

http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/symptoms/back-pain-low/overview.html?inl\

ine=nyt-classifier

> >r

> >

> > >.

> > Never have a

> >headache<

>

http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/symptoms/headache/overview.html?inline=n\

yt-classifier

> >

> > >.

> > Never have anything else.” This would make him a lucky man no matter

> > his

> > age. Because he is 87, it makes him an unusually robust specimen,

> > which is

> > what he must be if he is to defy the odds (and maybe even the gods)

> > and live

> > as long as he intends to. He wants to reach 125, and sees no reason he

> > can’t, provided that he continues eating the way he has for the last

> > quarter

> > century: with a methodical, messianic correctness that he believes

> > can, and

> > will, ward off major disease and minor ailment alike.

> >

> > So that sore throat wasn’t just an irritant. It was a challenge to t

> > he whole

> > gut-centered worldview on which his bid for extreme longevity rests.

> > “I went

> > back in my mind: what am I not eating enough of?” he told me. Defini

> > tely not

> > fruits and vegetables: he crams as many as 20 of them, including

> > pulverized

> > banana peels and the ground-up rinds of oranges, into the smoothies he

> > drinks two to three times a day, to keep his body brimming with

> > fiber and

> >vitamins<

>

http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/nutrition/vitamins/overview.html?inline=\

nyt-classifier

> >r

> >

> > >.

> > Probably not protein: he eats plenty of seafood, egg whites, beans

> > and nuts

> > to compensate for his avoidance of dairy, red meat and poultry,

> > which are

> > consigned to a list of forbidden foods that also includes alcohol,

> > sugar and

> > salt.

> >

> > “I couldn’t figure it out,” he said. So he made a frustrated

> > peace with his

> > malady, which was gone in 36 hours and, he stressed, not all that

> > bad. “I

> > wasn’t really struggling with it,” he said. “But my voice

> > changed a little

> > bit. I always have a powerful voice.” Indeed, he speaks so loudly at

> > times,

> > and in such a declamatory manner, that it cows people, who sometimes

> > assume

> > they’ve angered him. “When I open my mouth,” he noted, “the

> > room rings.”

> >

> > The room ringing just then was the vast, stately common area of his

> > vast,

> > stately North Carolina lodge, which sits on more than 500 acres of

> > woods and

> > meadows where a flock of rare black Welsh sheep — which he keeps as

> > pets,

> > certainly not as chops and cheese in the making — roam under the pro

> > tection

> > of four Great Pyrenees dogs. He got the dogs after a donkey and two

> > llamas

> > entrusted with guarding the flock from predators failed at the task.

> > The

> > donkey and llamas still hang out with their fleecy charges, but they

> > are

> > purely ornamental.

> >

> > Murdock loves to collect things: animals, orchids, Chippendale

> > mirrors,

> > Czechoslovakian chandeliers. He keeps yet another black Welsh flock

> > at one

> > of his two homes in Southern California, a 2,200-acre ranch whose

> > zoological

> > bounty extends to a herd of longhorn cattle, about 800 koi in a

> > manmade lake

> > and 16 horses — down from a population of more than 550, most of th

> > em

> > Arabians, 35 years ago — with their own exercise pool. He has five h

> > omes in

> > all, one on the small Hawaiian island of Lanai, which he owns almost

> > in its

> > entirety. He shuttles among them in a private jet. Forbes magazine’s

> > most

> > recent list of the 400 richest Americans put him at No. 130, with an

> > estimated net worth of $2.7 billion, thanks to real estate

> > development and

> > majority stakes in an array of companies, most notably Dole. Five

> > years

> > earlier the estimate was $4.2 billion, but the recession took its

> > toll.

> >

> > His affluence has enabled him to turn his private fixation on diet and

> > longevity into a public one. I went to see him first in North

> > Carolina in

> > late January. It is there, outside of Charlotte, in a city named

> > Kannapolis

> > near his lodge, that he has spent some $500 million of his fortune

> > in recent

> > years to construct the North Carolina Research Campus, a scientific

> > center

> > dedicated to his conviction that plants, eaten in copious quantities

> > and the

> > right variety, hold the promise of optimal health and maximal life

> > span. The

> > campus is a grand and grandiose sight, a cluster of mammoth Georgian-

> > style

> > buildings that dwarf everything around them. They call to mind an

> > august,

> > aged university, but the brick is without blemish, and there is no

> > ivy.

> >

> > Inside are world-class laboratories with cutting-edge equipment and

> > emblems

> > of the ostentation with which Murdock approaches much of what he

> > does. He

> > made two separate trips to the mountaintop quarries in Carrara,

> > Italy, to

> > select the 125 tons of off-white marble that cover the floor and

> > even the

> > walls of the central atrium of the main building, called the H.

> > Murdock Core Laboratory. He also commissioned, for the atrium’s dome

> > , an

> > enormous painted mural with outsize, hypervivid representations of

> > about two

> > dozen foods at the center of his diet, including grapes as large as

> > Frisbees, radishes bigger than beach balls and a pineapple the size

> > of a

> > schooner. This kaleidoscopic orgy of antioxidants is presented as a

> > wreath

> > around a soaring eagle, whose wingspan was lengthened at the last

> > minute, to

> > about 18 feet from 12, at his request. The bird symbolizes him.

> > Read the rest here @

> >NYTimes<

>

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/06/magazine/06murdock-t.html?_r=1 & nl=todaysheadli\

nes & emc=tha210

> >0

> >

> > >(access

> > may require a free registration)

> >

> > --

> > Ortiz, MS, RD

> > *The FRUGAL Dietitian* <http://www.thefrugaldietitian.com>

> > Check out my blog: mixture of deals and nutrition

> > New Giveaway: The Everything Mediterranean Diet Book: All you need

> > to lose

> > weight and stay healthy! Ends:3/9 @

> > Noon<http://thefrugaldietitian.com/?p=16061>Made

> > my own " funny but real " movie: Me interviewing a " potential " Dietetic

> > student <

> >

> > *Healthy Diet at any Age: We are NOT just looking

> > *

> >

> > *at the years people have behind them but also the

> > *

> >

> > *quality of the years ahead of them.*

> >

> >

> >

[Guest guest]

Maybe if you are looking to be his 6th wife :-)

On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 7:37 PM, Vajda wrote:

>

>

> I wonder if he is looking for a dietitian - I can throw odd things in a

> blender

> and even paint a bad mural - maybe even simultaneously if I use the right

> ingredients - post impressionist banana peel art world watch out.

>

> R Vajda, R.D.

>

>

> ________________________________

>

> To: " rd-usa " <rd-usa >

> Sent: Sun, March 6, 2011 5:20:12 PM

> Subject: Re: The Billionaire Who Is Planning His 125th Birthday

>

>

> Thanks,

>

> Sent from my iPhone

>

>

>

> > *One morning in* early January, Murdock awoke to an unsettling

> > sensation. At first he didn’t recognize it and then he couldn’t

> > believe it,

> > because for years — decades, really — he maintained what was, in h

> > is

> > immodest estimation, perfect health. But now there was this undeniable

> > imperfection, a scratchiness and swollenness familiar only from the

> > distant

> > past. Incredibly, infuriatingly, he had a sore

> >throat<

>

http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/symptoms/sore-throat/overview.html?inlin\

e=nyt-classifier

> >r

> >

> > >.

> >

> >

> > “I never have anything go wrong,” he said later. “Never have a

> >backache<

>

http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/symptoms/back-pain-low/overview.html?inl\

ine=nyt-classifier

> >r

> >

> > >.

> > Never have a

> >headache<

>

http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/symptoms/headache/overview.html?inline=n\

yt-classifier

> >

> > >.

> > Never have anything else.” This would make him a lucky man no matter

> > his

> > age. Because he is 87, it makes him an unusually robust specimen,

> > which is

> > what he must be if he is to defy the odds (and maybe even the gods)

> > and live

> > as long as he intends to. He wants to reach 125, and sees no reason he

> > can’t, provided that he continues eating the way he has for the last

> > quarter

> > century: with a methodical, messianic correctness that he believes

> > can, and

> > will, ward off major disease and minor ailment alike.

> >

> > So that sore throat wasn’t just an irritant. It was a challenge to t

> > he whole

> > gut-centered worldview on which his bid for extreme longevity rests.

> > “I went

> > back in my mind: what am I not eating enough of?” he told me. Defini

> > tely not

> > fruits and vegetables: he crams as many as 20 of them, including

> > pulverized

> > banana peels and the ground-up rinds of oranges, into the smoothies he

> > drinks two to three times a day, to keep his body brimming with

> > fiber and

> >vitamins<

>

http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/nutrition/vitamins/overview.html?inline=\

nyt-classifier

> >r

> >

> > >.

> > Probably not protein: he eats plenty of seafood, egg whites, beans

> > and nuts

> > to compensate for his avoidance of dairy, red meat and poultry,

> > which are

> > consigned to a list of forbidden foods that also includes alcohol,

> > sugar and

> > salt.

> >

> > “I couldn’t figure it out,” he said. So he made a frustrated

> > peace with his

> > malady, which was gone in 36 hours and, he stressed, not all that

> > bad. “I

> > wasn’t really struggling with it,” he said. “But my voice

> > changed a little

> > bit. I always have a powerful voice.” Indeed, he speaks so loudly at

> > times,

> > and in such a declamatory manner, that it cows people, who sometimes

> > assume

> > they’ve angered him. “When I open my mouth,” he noted, “the

> > room rings.”

> >

> > The room ringing just then was the vast, stately common area of his

> > vast,

> > stately North Carolina lodge, which sits on more than 500 acres of

> > woods and

> > meadows where a flock of rare black Welsh sheep — which he keeps as

> > pets,

> > certainly not as chops and cheese in the making — roam under the pro

> > tection

> > of four Great Pyrenees dogs. He got the dogs after a donkey and two

> > llamas

> > entrusted with guarding the flock from predators failed at the task.

> > The

> > donkey and llamas still hang out with their fleecy charges, but they

> > are

> > purely ornamental.

> >

> > Murdock loves to collect things: animals, orchids, Chippendale

> > mirrors,

> > Czechoslovakian chandeliers. He keeps yet another black Welsh flock

> > at one

> > of his two homes in Southern California, a 2,200-acre ranch whose

> > zoological

> > bounty extends to a herd of longhorn cattle, about 800 koi in a

> > manmade lake

> > and 16 horses — down from a population of more than 550, most of th

> > em

> > Arabians, 35 years ago — with their own exercise pool. He has five h

> > omes in

> > all, one on the small Hawaiian island of Lanai, which he owns almost

> > in its

> > entirety. He shuttles among them in a private jet. Forbes magazine’s

> > most

> > recent list of the 400 richest Americans put him at No. 130, with an

> > estimated net worth of $2.7 billion, thanks to real estate

> > development and

> > majority stakes in an array of companies, most notably Dole. Five

> > years

> > earlier the estimate was $4.2 billion, but the recession took its

> > toll.

> >

> > His affluence has enabled him to turn his private fixation on diet and

> > longevity into a public one. I went to see him first in North

> > Carolina in

> > late January. It is there, outside of Charlotte, in a city named

> > Kannapolis

> > near his lodge, that he has spent some $500 million of his fortune

> > in recent

> > years to construct the North Carolina Research Campus, a scientific

> > center

> > dedicated to his conviction that plants, eaten in copious quantities

> > and the

> > right variety, hold the promise of optimal health and maximal life

> > span. The

> > campus is a grand and grandiose sight, a cluster of mammoth Georgian-

> > style

> > buildings that dwarf everything around them. They call to mind an

> > august,

> > aged university, but the brick is without blemish, and there is no

> > ivy.

> >

> > Inside are world-class laboratories with cutting-edge equipment and

> > emblems

> > of the ostentation with which Murdock approaches much of what he

> > does. He

> > made two separate trips to the mountaintop quarries in Carrara,

> > Italy, to

> > select the 125 tons of off-white marble that cover the floor and

> > even the

> > walls of the central atrium of the main building, called the H.

> > Murdock Core Laboratory. He also commissioned, for the atrium’s dome

> > , an

> > enormous painted mural with outsize, hypervivid representations of

> > about two

> > dozen foods at the center of his diet, including grapes as large as

> > Frisbees, radishes bigger than beach balls and a pineapple the size

> > of a

> > schooner. This kaleidoscopic orgy of antioxidants is presented as a

> > wreath

> > around a soaring eagle, whose wingspan was lengthened at the last

> > minute, to

> > about 18 feet from 12, at his request. The bird symbolizes him.

> > Read the rest here @

> >NYTimes<

>

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/06/magazine/06murdock-t.html?_r=1 & nl=todaysheadli\

nes & emc=tha210

> >0

> >

> > >(access

> > may require a free registration)

> >

> > --

> > Ortiz, MS, RD

> > *The FRUGAL Dietitian* <http://www.thefrugaldietitian.com>

> > Check out my blog: mixture of deals and nutrition

> > New Giveaway: The Everything Mediterranean Diet Book: All you need

> > to lose

> > weight and stay healthy! Ends:3/9 @

> > Noon<http://thefrugaldietitian.com/?p=16061>Made

> > my own " funny but real " movie: Me interviewing a " potential " Dietetic

> > student <

> >

> > *Healthy Diet at any Age: We are NOT just looking

> > *

> >

> > *at the years people have behind them but also the

> > *

> >

> > *quality of the years ahead of them.*

> >

> >

> >

[Guest guest]

no- one husband is plenty - but I did look at the research facility website -

very pretty exterior and equipment. Interesting to see if he will be able to buy

longevity. - different route than buying way to heaven.

R Vajda, R.D.

________________________________

To: rd-usa

Sent: Sun, March 6, 2011 7:43:53 PM

Subject: Re: The Billionaire Who Is Planning His 125th Birthday

Maybe if you are looking to be his 6th wife :-)

On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 7:37 PM, Vajda wrote:

>

>

> I wonder if he is looking for a dietitian - I can throw odd things in a

> blender

> and even paint a bad mural - maybe even simultaneously if I use the right

> ingredients - post impressionist banana peel art world watch out.

>

> R Vajda, R.D.

>

>

> ________________________________

>

> To: " rd-usa " <rd-usa >

> Sent: Sun, March 6, 2011 5:20:12 PM

> Subject: Re: The Billionaire Who Is Planning His 125th Birthday

>

>

> Thanks,

>

> Sent from my iPhone

>

>

>

> > *One morning in* early January, Murdock awoke to an unsettling

> > sensation. At first he didn’t recognize it and then he couldn’t

> > believe it,

> > because for years — decades, really — he maintained what was, in h

> > is

> > immodest estimation, perfect health. But now there was this undeniable

> > imperfection, a scratchiness and swollenness familiar only from the

> > distant

> > past. Incredibly, infuriatingly, he had a sore

> >throat<

>http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/symptoms/sore-throat/overview.html?inli\

ne=nyt-classifier

>r

> >r

> >

> > >.

> >

> >

> > “I never have anything go wrong,†he said later. “Never have a

> >backache<

>http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/symptoms/back-pain-low/overview.html?in\

line=nyt-classifier

>r

> >r

> >

> > >.

> > Never have a

> >headache<

>http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/symptoms/headache/overview.html?inline=\

nyt-classifier

>r

> >

> > >.

> > Never have anything else.†This would make him a lucky man no matter

> > his

> > age. Because he is 87, it makes him an unusually robust specimen,

> > which is

> > what he must be if he is to defy the odds (and maybe even the gods)

> > and live

> > as long as he intends to. He wants to reach 125, and sees no reason he

> > can’t, provided that he continues eating the way he has for the last

> > quarter

> > century: with a methodical, messianic correctness that he believes

> > can, and

> > will, ward off major disease and minor ailment alike.

> >

> > So that sore throat wasn’t just an irritant. It was a challenge to t

> > he whole

> > gut-centered worldview on which his bid for extreme longevity rests.

> > “I went

> > back in my mind: what am I not eating enough of?†he told me. Defini

> > tely not

> > fruits and vegetables: he crams as many as 20 of them, including

> > pulverized

> > banana peels and the ground-up rinds of oranges, into the smoothies he

> > drinks two to three times a day, to keep his body brimming with

> > fiber and

> >vitamins<

>http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/nutrition/vitamins/overview.html?inline\

=nyt-classifier

>r

> >r

> >

> > >.

> > Probably not protein: he eats plenty of seafood, egg whites, beans

> > and nuts

> > to compensate for his avoidance of dairy, red meat and poultry,

> > which are

> > consigned to a list of forbidden foods that also includes alcohol,

> > sugar and

> > salt.

> >

> > “I couldn’t figure it out,†he said. So he made a frustrated

> > peace with his

> > malady, which was gone in 36 hours and, he stressed, not all that

> > bad. “I

> > wasn’t really struggling with it,†he said. “But my voice

> > changed a little

> > bit. I always have a powerful voice.†Indeed, he speaks so loudly at

> > times,

> > and in such a declamatory manner, that it cows people, who sometimes

> > assume

> > they’ve angered him. “When I open my mouth,†he noted, “the

> > room rings.â€

> >

> > The room ringing just then was the vast, stately common area of his

> > vast,

> > stately North Carolina lodge, which sits on more than 500 acres of

> > woods and

> > meadows where a flock of rare black Welsh sheep — which he keeps as

> > pets,

> > certainly not as chops and cheese in the making — roam under the pro

> > tection

> > of four Great Pyrenees dogs. He got the dogs after a donkey and two

> > llamas

> > entrusted with guarding the flock from predators failed at the task.

> > The

> > donkey and llamas still hang out with their fleecy charges, but they

> > are

> > purely ornamental.

> >

> > Murdock loves to collect things: animals, orchids, Chippendale

> > mirrors,

> > Czechoslovakian chandeliers. He keeps yet another black Welsh flock

> > at one

> > of his two homes in Southern California, a 2,200-acre ranch whose

> > zoological

> > bounty extends to a herd of longhorn cattle, about 800 koi in a

> > manmade lake

> > and 16 horses — down from a population of more than 550, most of th

> > em

> > Arabians, 35 years ago — with their own exercise pool. He has five h

> > omes in

> > all, one on the small Hawaiian island of Lanai, which he owns almost

> > in its

> > entirety. He shuttles among them in a private jet. Forbes magazine’s

> > most

> > recent list of the 400 richest Americans put him at No. 130, with an

> > estimated net worth of $2.7 billion, thanks to real estate

> > development and

> > majority stakes in an array of companies, most notably Dole. Five

> > years

> > earlier the estimate was $4.2 billion, but the recession took its

> > toll.

> >

> > His affluence has enabled him to turn his private fixation on diet and

> > longevity into a public one. I went to see him first in North

> > Carolina in

> > late January. It is there, outside of Charlotte, in a city named

> > Kannapolis

> > near his lodge, that he has spent some $500 million of his fortune

> > in recent

> > years to construct the North Carolina Research Campus, a scientific

> > center

> > dedicated to his conviction that plants, eaten in copious quantities

> > and the

> > right variety, hold the promise of optimal health and maximal life

> > span. The

> > campus is a grand and grandiose sight, a cluster of mammoth Georgian-

> > style

> > buildings that dwarf everything around them. They call to mind an

> > august,

> > aged university, but the brick is without blemish, and there is no

> > ivy.

> >

> > Inside are world-class laboratories with cutting-edge equipment and

> > emblems

> > of the ostentation with which Murdock approaches much of what he

> > does. He

> > made two separate trips to the mountaintop quarries in Carrara,

> > Italy, to

> > select the 125 tons of off-white marble that cover the floor and

> > even the

> > walls of the central atrium of the main building, called the H.

> > Murdock Core Laboratory. He also commissioned, for the atrium’s dome

> > , an

> > enormous painted mural with outsize, hypervivid representations of

> > about two

> > dozen foods at the center of his diet, including grapes as large as

> > Frisbees, radishes bigger than beach balls and a pineapple the size

> > of a

> > schooner. This kaleidoscopic orgy of antioxidants is presented as a

> > wreath

> > around a soaring eagle, whose wingspan was lengthened at the last

> > minute, to

> > about 18 feet from 12, at his request. The bird symbolizes him.

> > Read the rest here @

> >NYTimes<

>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/06/magazine/06murdock-t.html?_r=1 & nl=todaysheadl\

ines & emc=tha210

>0

> >0

> >

> > >(access

> > may require a free registration)

> >

> > --

> > Ortiz, MS, RD

> > *The FRUGAL Dietitian* <http://www.thefrugaldietitian.com>

> > Check out my blog: mixture of deals and nutrition

> > New Giveaway: The Everything Mediterranean Diet Book: All you need

> > to lose

> > weight and stay healthy! Ends:3/9 @

> > Noon<http://thefrugaldietitian.com/?p=16061>Made

> > my own " funny but real " movie: Me interviewing a " potential " Dietetic

> > student <

> >

> > *Healthy Diet at any Age: We are NOT just looking

> > *

> >

> > *at the years people have behind them but also the

> > *

> >

> > *quality of the years ahead of them.*

> >

> >

> >

[Guest guest]

no- one husband is plenty - but I did look at the research facility website -

very pretty exterior and equipment. Interesting to see if he will be able to buy

longevity. - different route than buying way to heaven.

R Vajda, R.D.

________________________________

To: rd-usa

Sent: Sun, March 6, 2011 7:43:53 PM

Subject: Re: The Billionaire Who Is Planning His 125th Birthday

Maybe if you are looking to be his 6th wife :-)

On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 7:37 PM, Vajda wrote:

>

>

> I wonder if he is looking for a dietitian - I can throw odd things in a

> blender

> and even paint a bad mural - maybe even simultaneously if I use the right

> ingredients - post impressionist banana peel art world watch out.

>

> R Vajda, R.D.

>

>

> ________________________________

>

> To: " rd-usa " <rd-usa >

> Sent: Sun, March 6, 2011 5:20:12 PM

> Subject: Re: The Billionaire Who Is Planning His 125th Birthday

>

>

> Thanks,

>

> Sent from my iPhone

>

>

>

> > *One morning in* early January, Murdock awoke to an unsettling

> > sensation. At first he didn’t recognize it and then he couldn’t

> > believe it,

> > because for years — decades, really — he maintained what was, in h

> > is

> > immodest estimation, perfect health. But now there was this undeniable

> > imperfection, a scratchiness and swollenness familiar only from the

> > distant

> > past. Incredibly, infuriatingly, he had a sore

> >throat<

>http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/symptoms/sore-throat/overview.html?inli\

ne=nyt-classifier

>r

> >r

> >

> > >.

> >

> >

> > “I never have anything go wrong,†he said later. “Never have a

> >backache<

>http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/symptoms/back-pain-low/overview.html?in\

line=nyt-classifier

>r

> >r

> >

> > >.

> > Never have a

> >headache<

>http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/symptoms/headache/overview.html?inline=\

nyt-classifier

>r

> >

> > >.

> > Never have anything else.†This would make him a lucky man no matter

> > his

> > age. Because he is 87, it makes him an unusually robust specimen,

> > which is

> > what he must be if he is to defy the odds (and maybe even the gods)

> > and live

> > as long as he intends to. He wants to reach 125, and sees no reason he

> > can’t, provided that he continues eating the way he has for the last

> > quarter

> > century: with a methodical, messianic correctness that he believes

> > can, and

> > will, ward off major disease and minor ailment alike.

> >

> > So that sore throat wasn’t just an irritant. It was a challenge to t

> > he whole

> > gut-centered worldview on which his bid for extreme longevity rests.

> > “I went

> > back in my mind: what am I not eating enough of?†he told me. Defini

> > tely not

> > fruits and vegetables: he crams as many as 20 of them, including

> > pulverized

> > banana peels and the ground-up rinds of oranges, into the smoothies he

> > drinks two to three times a day, to keep his body brimming with

> > fiber and

> >vitamins<

>http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/nutrition/vitamins/overview.html?inline\

=nyt-classifier

>r

> >r

> >

> > >.

> > Probably not protein: he eats plenty of seafood, egg whites, beans

> > and nuts

> > to compensate for his avoidance of dairy, red meat and poultry,

> > which are

> > consigned to a list of forbidden foods that also includes alcohol,

> > sugar and

> > salt.

> >

> > “I couldn’t figure it out,†he said. So he made a frustrated

> > peace with his

> > malady, which was gone in 36 hours and, he stressed, not all that

> > bad. “I

> > wasn’t really struggling with it,†he said. “But my voice

> > changed a little

> > bit. I always have a powerful voice.†Indeed, he speaks so loudly at

> > times,

> > and in such a declamatory manner, that it cows people, who sometimes

> > assume

> > they’ve angered him. “When I open my mouth,†he noted, “the

> > room rings.â€

> >

> > The room ringing just then was the vast, stately common area of his

> > vast,

> > stately North Carolina lodge, which sits on more than 500 acres of

> > woods and

> > meadows where a flock of rare black Welsh sheep — which he keeps as

> > pets,

> > certainly not as chops and cheese in the making — roam under the pro

> > tection

> > of four Great Pyrenees dogs. He got the dogs after a donkey and two

> > llamas

> > entrusted with guarding the flock from predators failed at the task.

> > The

> > donkey and llamas still hang out with their fleecy charges, but they

> > are

> > purely ornamental.

> >

> > Murdock loves to collect things: animals, orchids, Chippendale

> > mirrors,

> > Czechoslovakian chandeliers. He keeps yet another black Welsh flock

> > at one

> > of his two homes in Southern California, a 2,200-acre ranch whose

> > zoological

> > bounty extends to a herd of longhorn cattle, about 800 koi in a

> > manmade lake

> > and 16 horses — down from a population of more than 550, most of th

> > em

> > Arabians, 35 years ago — with their own exercise pool. He has five h

> > omes in

> > all, one on the small Hawaiian island of Lanai, which he owns almost

> > in its

> > entirety. He shuttles among them in a private jet. Forbes magazine’s

> > most

> > recent list of the 400 richest Americans put him at No. 130, with an

> > estimated net worth of $2.7 billion, thanks to real estate

> > development and

> > majority stakes in an array of companies, most notably Dole. Five

> > years

> > earlier the estimate was $4.2 billion, but the recession took its

> > toll.

> >

> > His affluence has enabled him to turn his private fixation on diet and

> > longevity into a public one. I went to see him first in North

> > Carolina in

> > late January. It is there, outside of Charlotte, in a city named

> > Kannapolis

> > near his lodge, that he has spent some $500 million of his fortune

> > in recent

> > years to construct the North Carolina Research Campus, a scientific

> > center

> > dedicated to his conviction that plants, eaten in copious quantities

> > and the

> > right variety, hold the promise of optimal health and maximal life

> > span. The

> > campus is a grand and grandiose sight, a cluster of mammoth Georgian-

> > style

> > buildings that dwarf everything around them. They call to mind an

> > august,

> > aged university, but the brick is without blemish, and there is no

> > ivy.

> >

> > Inside are world-class laboratories with cutting-edge equipment and

> > emblems

> > of the ostentation with which Murdock approaches much of what he

> > does. He

> > made two separate trips to the mountaintop quarries in Carrara,

> > Italy, to

> > select the 125 tons of off-white marble that cover the floor and

> > even the

> > walls of the central atrium of the main building, called the H.

> > Murdock Core Laboratory. He also commissioned, for the atrium’s dome

> > , an

> > enormous painted mural with outsize, hypervivid representations of

> > about two

> > dozen foods at the center of his diet, including grapes as large as

> > Frisbees, radishes bigger than beach balls and a pineapple the size

> > of a

> > schooner. This kaleidoscopic orgy of antioxidants is presented as a

> > wreath

> > around a soaring eagle, whose wingspan was lengthened at the last

> > minute, to

> > about 18 feet from 12, at his request. The bird symbolizes him.

> > Read the rest here @

> >NYTimes<

>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/06/magazine/06murdock-t.html?_r=1 & nl=todaysheadl\

ines & emc=tha210

>0

> >0

> >

> > >(access

> > may require a free registration)

> >

> > --

> > Ortiz, MS, RD

> > *The FRUGAL Dietitian* <http://www.thefrugaldietitian.com>

> > Check out my blog: mixture of deals and nutrition

> > New Giveaway: The Everything Mediterranean Diet Book: All you need

> > to lose

> > weight and stay healthy! Ends:3/9 @

> > Noon<http://thefrugaldietitian.com/?p=16061>Made

> > my own " funny but real " movie: Me interviewing a " potential " Dietetic

> > student <

> >

> > *Healthy Diet at any Age: We are NOT just looking

> > *

> >

> > *at the years people have behind them but also the

> > *

> >

> > *quality of the years ahead of them.*

> >

> >

> >