Re: Dr. Walford

[Guest guest]

No sure where that quote comes from that you wrote below. I heard it

straight from Walford's mouth that he started at the age of 67. If so, it's

not 20 years.

I've changed the title of this thread which I find offensive, esp. since Dr

W is a member here and used to read the list. I doubt he's doing that

lately because of his condition, but nevertheless..........

on 11/25/2003 8:47 AM, Dowling at dowlic@... wrote:

> Agreed that it's a moot point, but, " The 120 Year Diet " was published in

> 1986, before Biosphere. Roy was into CRON and practicing before, and during

> Biosphere.

>

> " Walford has kept to his starvation diet for nearly 20 years. On a typical

> day, he has a low-fat milk shake, a banana, some yeast, and some berries for

> breakfast. Lunch is a large vegetable salad, and dinner is fish, a baked

> sweet potato, and vegetables. His daily calorie count comes to about half

> the 3,000 calories per day many Americans eat. Even Hibbs lacks the

> wherewithal to try such an extreme diet. " It's just very difficult, " he

> says. " Damn few people, including me, are willing to put up with it. " "

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I was practicing Roy's version of CR, per the " 120 Year Diet " in the later

80's, eating brewer's yeast with non-fat cottage cheese and yogurt blended

with raw garlic and broccoli. One doesn't forget that stuff!

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>From: Francesca Skelton <fskelton@...>

>Reply-

>< >

>Subject: Re: [ ] Dr. Walford

>Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 08:57:32 -0500

>

>No sure where that quote comes from that you wrote below. I heard it

>straight from Walford's mouth that he started at the age of 67. If so,

>it's

>not 20 years.

>

>I've changed the title of this thread which I find offensive, esp. since Dr

>W is a member here and used to read the list. I doubt he's doing that

>lately because of his condition, but nevertheless..........

>

>

>on 11/25/2003 8:47 AM, Dowling at dowlic@... wrote:

>

> > Agreed that it's a moot point, but, " The 120 Year Diet " was published in

> > 1986, before Biosphere. Roy was into CRON and practicing before, and

>during

> > Biosphere.

> >

> > " Walford has kept to his starvation diet for nearly 20 years. On a

>typical

> > day, he has a low-fat milk shake, a banana, some yeast, and some berries

>for

> > breakfast. Lunch is a large vegetable salad, and dinner is fish, a baked

> > sweet potato, and vegetables. His daily calorie count comes to about

>half

> > the 3,000 calories per day many Americans eat. Even Hibbs lacks the

> > wherewithal to try such an extreme diet. " It's just very difficult, " he

> > says. " Damn few people, including me, are willing to put up with it. " "

>

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[Guest guest]

Zack: Thanks for your very well written post. Unfortunately though, most

news articles still are not accurate or present CRON as the best we have

available at this time. The NY Times article presenting Dr W as ill is a

perfect example. I haven't read the full article but the excerpt posted

here seemed to point out that because Dr W was ill, that the diet was a lot

of hooey.

P.S. to all Please do not use the offensive subject line originally used

for this thread in any more posts. Use the one in this post or something

else.

on 11/25/2003 10:25 AM, Zack Brown at zbrown@... wrote:

> If he does read this list as someone said (or if someone cares to show this

> post to him), I'd like to thank him for all the work he's done toward helping

> humanity come closer to knowing how to live. For many years he's persisted in

> trying to spread the word about his findings, and now finally the scientific

> community has started to listen. Newspaper and magazine articles appear all

> the time, and they don't say, " here is another crackpot theory " , they say,

> " here is a scientifically demonstrated truth " . Walford's work, and the

> work of those he inspired, has brought that about. And we are starting to

> witness a shift in people's understanding of diet. Obesity in the US is going

> down. People everywhere are starting to realize what they are throwing away

> by living the way they have been.

[Guest guest]

Hi:

I very much would like to echo Zack's sentiments.

If it turns out there are proportionately more cases of ALS among

those practising CRON, than in the general population then, clearly,

that would be significant information.

In the unlikely case that it were found to be true I do not doubt the

information will very promptly be posted here.

Until then, we need not be concerned, in my opinion.

Rodney.

>

> > If he does read this list as someone said (or if someone cares to

show this

> > post to him), I'd like to thank him for all the work he's done

toward helping

> > humanity come closer to knowing how to live. For many years he's

persisted in

> > trying to spread the word about his findings, and now finally the

scientific

> > community has started to listen. Newspaper and magazine articles

appear all

> > the time, and they don't say, " here is another crackpot theory " ,

they say,

> > " here is a scientifically demonstrated truth " . Walford's work,

and the

> > work of those he inspired, has brought that about. And we are

starting to

> > witness a shift in people's understanding of diet. Obesity in the

US is going

> > down. People everywhere are starting to realize what they are

throwing away

> > by living the way they have been.