HOW TO PREVENT PREMATURE AGING AND STAY YOUNGER LONGER
Which foods will give you longer life and keep you younger longer? The macrobiotic diet outlined in this chapter will improve your health and increase your longevity. It is a predominantly lacto-vegetarian diet high in natural carbohydrates and low in animal proteins. The bulk of this diet consists of raw fruits and vegetables, whole grain products, milk and milk products, plus seeds, nuts, , honey and vegetable oils. Meat, fish and eggs should be excluded totally or used in moderation—fish and eggs used in preference to meat. Remember, the healthiest peoples in the world, known for their longevity, who live in Bulgaria, Russia and Hunza, eat very little meat; and a surprisingly high percentage of Russian and Bulgarian centenarians are vegetarians.
Here are a few other important longevity points to remember:
1. Get plenty of physical excercise, avoid mental and emotional stresses, and get sufficient sleep and relaxation.
Supplement your diet with such natural nutritional substances as brewer’s or food yeast, kelp, cod liver oil (in winter months) and rose hips and whey—all potent longevity foods.
Avoid: white sugar, white flour, coffee, tea, tobacco, salt, canned, preserved and irradiated, foods, processed cereals, ail refined and adulterated foods.
Make an effort to obtain organically grown foods, raised without chemical fertilizers and poisonous pesticides.
Soured milk in the form of yogurt, buttermilk or kefir are longevity foods because of their beneficial effect on the intestinal tract. Also other fermented lactic-acid foods, such as sauerkraut, | sour pickles, and sour-dough bread, are established macrobiotic | factors. Use them liberally.
It has been established that an active sex life is tied to overall good health and longevity. A healthy hormone-producing activity of the endocrine glands and the sex glands has a powerful influence on the health, and consequently is an important factor for potential longevity. An atrophied glandular system and diminished hormone” production bring about premature aging and senility. The following foods have been found to have a beneficial protective and stimulating effect on the normal functions of the glandular and reproductive systems:
wheat germ oil and wheat germ;
sesame seeds, sunflower seeds, and pumpkin seeds;
honey—raw, unrefined, unhealed;
milk and cheese—raw, unpasteurized, unprocessed;
brewer’s yeast or food yeast.
Follow the macrobiotic diet outlined in this chapter and adhere to the advice in the above six points and you can assure yourself of, the best possible health throughout your life. At the same time, this macrobiotic program will prevent premature aging, give you longer life and keep you young longer. This program is in harmony with the recomendations by the most authoritative scientific forum: the International Society for Research on Nutrition and Vital Substances. And, if my own humble opinion is of any value to you, I can testify—after giving this rejuvenating macrobiotic system a 20-year try—that it definitely “works”!
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