Re: [CR] A rather interesting website

[Guest guest]

Hello AJ and CR ALL:

Wow -- this is a great website on Calorie Restriction, and a

good description of it that AJ gives us (see AJ's URL below).

I like the information on fasting, which is lucid and concise:

http://www.anti-aging-guide.com/30fasting.php

I also agree whole-heartedly that the posted abstracts are

particularly well-chosen and valuable. The website topical

layout, headings, and structuring seem to indicate a great

deal of knowledge about CR. Highly recommended, and you

will enjoy it to learn much quickly and easily.

The economic interests of the author are well-served with

such an effective graphical and educational presentation

that accents the benefits of CR for humans. The donation

page reads this way:

" " We would much appreciate your support! Your donations will

help us in two ways:

1. You will support the work of our anti-aging experts and

physicians. The results of their work will extend our

knowledge in the field of anti-aging science and we will

keep you informed on practical techniques of how to boost

energy and health.

2. You will help us to maintain a state of the art

Anti-Aging Fasting and Caloric Restriction Center on

the Adriatic Sea Coast. " "

The focus on " The art of Anti-Aging Fasting ... " for assisting an

easy transition to a healthy CR regimen indicates to me that there

is some advanced wisdom at this website. The fasting method works

very well in conjunction with human physiology and psychology,

to help humans more easily transition to and accept the austerities

of a CR lifestyle. Once the art of fasting is mastered, the common

deprivations associated with CR tend to disappear.

Dr. Walford (the Master himself) practiced his CR regimen using the

fasting method to live his CR lifestyle for many years. This he

did by fasting for 2 consecutive days, with a normal diet for the

remainder of the week.

-- Warren

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On 18 Oct 2003, Dr. AJ Shaka wrote:

Hi All,

I found a rather interesting " anti-aging " website at the URL

http://www.anti-aging-guide.com

run by a (Croatian?) Arcady L. Economo, Ph. D. I have no idea if this is a

nom de plume with a tongue-in-cheek reference to how much money he plans to

make with the CR camps on the Adriatic Coast...

Many of Dr. Arcady's claims seem overblown ( " add 40-50 years to your life

with CR " ) but on the other hand the website has a *ton* of information of

all kinds: fasting, CR, vegetables, supplements, you name it. Based on a

few inaccuracies I found, I'd be leery of believing things wholesale, but on

balance it makes good reading. He has lots of recent abstracts from

relevant articles, all nicely organized.

Dr. Arcady favors intermittent fasting, like I do. Perhaps that's a bad

sign?

A. J. Shaka

Chemistry Department

University of California, Irvine

[Guest guest]

--- In , " Hue " <kargo_cult@m...>

wrote:

> > Wow -- this is a great website on Calorie Restriction, and a

> > good description of it that AJ gives us (see AJ's URL below).

> > I like the information on fasting, which is lucid and concise:

> >

> > http://www.anti-aging-guide.com/30fasting.php

>

> Well, as long as this site can be touted here, i think i can feel

> free to mention some criticism. I found the homepage to be

> very crowded, and all the fasting-plans over to the right,

> just a confusion. Also, i followed the " Religious Support "

> lead, and found the material there in strange juxtaposition to

> the scientific study material referenced elsewhere on the site.

> Rather than waste life energy to " win God's grace " and

> " work out your Salvation " , i'd recommend " escape from the

> seductions of illogic " and " work our your own Evolution, up

> from purely instinctual living "

> -Hue

*****I was pretty impressed with the site. I spent a good hour

reading through various links/articles and never even found

the " religious support " link until you mentioned it (if I had seen it

on my own I would probably have just skipped over it). That is

probably because of what you note, Hue: it is very crowded and not

well laid out. Also, I wonder about the credentials of

those " writing " the site's script.

Yes, the link you mention is there, down near the bottom left, quite

inconspicuous, actually.

As science moves in the direction of quantum theory (a steady

increasing progression since the late sixties), much of what the New

Physics is discovering in the laboratory closely matches what mystics

have been saying for several millenia (the wording of the mystics is

somewhat different but the ideas expressed show a strong convergence).

The world and the universe are both far stranger places than our

thoughts tell us they are; the average person's experience of the

world/universe is more a construction of thought than what is

actually " there. " When thought drops away, THEN one may experience

the world/universe directly -- and there is, if you'll pardon the

pun -- a world of difference between the two experiences. Some of

the world's most renowned scientists have, on occasion, written in

terminology that approaches the language of mystics and great

spiritual teachers (Christ, e.g.).

While not a fan of any organized religion, I find significant

congruence in the basic, untarnished teachings of all the world's

major religions. Ax well, those teachings accord pretty closely with

the mystics' perspective. It is only when the religions become

institutionalized that gross distortions occur.

~andy