Our Virtual Organ And A Piece Of Knowledge Just Added To Google

It's rare to have a piece of knowledge that is not yet on Google! But here is one: I posted a question on FaceBook as to what organ is in our body, that has more cells in it than the rest of our body, but yet is not at all a part of our body, and is instead, a "Virtual Organ" within our bodies? The answer, which no one got, is Our Digestive Mass. That is, our digesting food, combined with the normal flora and bacteria in our intestines, that create a virtual organ for digesting our food for us. Interesting huh? Now that piece of information is on Google! Provided by me :) Also, to my FaceBook friends, I am no longer on FaceBook as my account was disabled. They don't tell you why, but it could have been for promoting my book, or having too many friends (1800) on Facebook too fast. Anyway, it was fun while it lasted.
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Health Care Reform Or Insurance Reform?

The debate rages on about Health Care Reform. I guess the part that constantly disturbs me the most, is that this debate has nothing at all to do with health care. It is entirely about Insurance Reform and how to get more people being forced to buy more insurance from an already multi-trillion dollar a year industry!

Health Care itself is not even about health care. It is about disease treatment. There is not a single program the government offers, or the insurance companies offer that is in any way concerned with keeping you healthy. They are delighted that the American population is getting fatter and sicker by the day, and paying more and more each year to get medical services, which they need more and more each year. The spiral grows and the insurance companies are laughing all the way to the bank!
Having gone to both veterinary college, and human medical college, I can tell you the one outstanding difference, was the price. Let me give you a few examples: Pet hospitalization overnight: about $20, human $2,000. Pet hysterectomy: about $250, human $25,000 Pet insurance per year: about $100, human $10,000. The list goes on and on with the notable feature being that all human medical costs are 100 times as much, for exactly the same thing!

If you made the price on human medical services the same as they are at a veterinary hospital, the human medical industry and the veterinary medical industry would be exactly the same size: twenty billion dollars a year in revenues. Medicare fraud alone is currently three times as large as the entire veterinary industry, which frankly delivers the most amazing services at the best prices on the planet.

Fifty years ago, a person might carry what was then called "Major Medical Insurance," which was for use if you got really sick and ended up in the hospital. Some people had it, but not very many. Also, fifty years ago, hospitals were mostly owned by Churches and Cities. Now they are all owned by Corporations. Which means they are now only concerned with profits. Your health is a far distant third or fourth concern to these corporations. See if they'll help you for free when you're really sick and can't afford it. The church owned hospitals use to.

The only real answer to this debate is that the government should offer free health care by opening up it's already free locations like the VA hospitals and medicare. If you don't want to buy health insurance, head down to the VA for care. Just like public schools are free, so should some version of medical care be.

It's a fool's game, and the insurance companies are trying to balloon a two trillion dollar a year industry into a ten trillion dollar a year industry. Don't think so? Wait and see what happens.

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God's Speech To Adam

"We have made thee neither of heaven nor of earth,
Neither mortal nor immortal,
So that with freedom of choice and with honor,
As though the maker and molder of thyself,
Thou shalt have the power out of thy soul's judgment,
To be reborn into the higher forms, which are divine."
-----God's speech to Adam from Pico Della Mirandola's
Oration On The Dignity of Man-----

I just love this quotation as it speaks so powerfully on your
power to choose and create your own destiny!
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are on a mission you rally your greatest resources and your greatest capabilities. You set the highest standards and lead the way. You exalt and engage every one around you. Your purpose is clear and your goals are exactly defined. This is when you are really living.

With my five Cat Hospitals, we were definitely on a mission. We were more than in business. We were out to prove something and elevate the standards of care for all cats that came into our lives. We weren't shy about it either. We let the world know we were the best and we were ready to show you. Just bring in your kitty and see.

At the level of mission, you really contribute too. We saved thousands of cats from "convenience killing" and found them new homes in our adoption centers versus just putting them to sleep for the convenience of their owners who were moving and couldn't keep their cat. We saved thousands of cat's lives by delivering a higher standard of medical care and through diagnostics to solve problems medically and behaviorally versus just watching the problem and hoping it would solve itself. We really contributed to the betterment of our patients. From fulfilling our mission, we all gained the wealth of an emotional pot of gold that we get to keep for the rest of our lives.

What could you do in your life to live at the level of mission? Do you have a mission? What mission could you take on? What exalted purpose would you like to actualize? Search your heart. We all have something of greatness to contribute. Maybe you have an invention you would like to bring to market. I have known many people with a great idea or invention that they never actualize because five thousand dollars stood in their way. Five thousand dollars is nothing. If you have to, get a part time job at night to save up an extra

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Slow Your Biological Clock

I realize I am the only one selling this message, but the key to longevity is to Slow Your Biological Clock. That is achieved by Slowing Your Metabolism. Even the experts don't get it when the evidence is right in front of their faces.

I heard a fitness lady on television the other day telling viewers to never skip a meal, because that will slow your metabolism. Surprisingly, that's what you want. Weight is ultimately the issue, because if you are overweight, your metabolism runs faster. Your body sees the need to burn off those excess calories and does so by making you hotter and using futile heat cycles to get rid of all that excess energy.

The studies show that even your basal metabolism can be slowed by as much as sixty percent. Using a calculator and doing the same math that you used in high school to calculate which car would get to Chicago fastest, which person do you think would get older faster if they had the faster metabolism? You go it!...Tubby.

Fasting is a method of life extension. Some people in the life extension CR community only eat every other day. Early animal studies too accomplished a fifty percent reduction in food intake by only feeding the animals every other day. I have skipped some meals along the way, but fasting is not my favorite method of caloric restriction. Eating right and counting the calories is.

So the exciting take-home message is you can live decades longer than you ever imagined and the method is here and available today. It's all in my book and it's easy to do.

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The Arcuate Fasciculus, Thomas Parr Oldest Man To Live Past 150, and The Emotional Funneling Cure

A little known, but incredibly important structure in the human brain, is the arcuate fasciculus. This is the arching band of neural tract fibers that connects, and integrates, the other areas of the brain. This bundle of nerve fibers allows us to speak about our thoughts, think about what we see, and know how to put it all together. Without it, we would be a lot dumber.

All animals have an arcuate fasciculus, but the human brain has the largest and most invasive form of it. It may actually be the key to our intelligence. Monkeys have a less elaborate version of this neural tract, and dogs and cats have an even less developed form of it too. I guess I bring up the topic today because I continue to wonder why so few people can succeed at dieting. Is it related to their intelligence?

It might be, but I truly believe everyone is capable of dieting successfully and living at ideal weight. The real problem is emotional funneling: The misinterpretation of other emotions as hunger. This is a common problem in our society as all emotions are taught to be suppressed, even from childhood, and we suffer tremendously as a result.

In my book, I teach you how to stop evaluating your emotions incorrectly, and how to express them better and manage them better too. It's a shame we aren't taught the fact early in life that all people wrestle with their emotions, and that they should be expressed in a healthy manner. Who can express anything today, with political correctness and a lawyer waiting to sue you around every corner.

Get my book to learn more and I stand amazed at how many people come to this web site to learn more about Thomas Parr, the first man to live over 150!

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The Aging Revolution And Ideal Weight

The Aging Revolution is moving us forward at four years of additional life expectancy per decade. This trend is expected to continue until the average lifespan becomes 100 in the year 2050. This is amazing progress considering life expectancy was 45 a hundred years ago, but it is consistent with the four years per decade progress.

It is equally amazing that it wasn't until 1920 that The American Medical Association declared that it felt physicians were generally now doing more good than harm. Before that, it was more harm than good. I still remember, as a child, that people dreadfully feared going to the hospital, because most people that went to the hospital died. Luckily now, we go to the hospital brimming with optimism, and know we are going to get sophisticated, high-tech, medical diagnostics and treatments. We have made a lot of progress in just fifty years.

The one thing you must have though, to be healthy and live long, is a number. That number is your ideal weight. I have seen the best in fitness and health, and those people had an ideal weight number as sacred as their social security number. To live long and avoid the diseases of overweight and aging, you must know your ideal weight number and stick close to it your whole life.

I met a physician one time who was still practicing at 103 years old. She was spry and bright and still contributing medical service on a steady schedule. She had a thumb rule that she only ever ate "vegetables and bit of protein." That was her slogan. It worked really well.

I have also met champions of fitness. They have slogans too, but it was their ideal weight number that was most important to them. They also knew how to calculate it in a second.

It's just this simple: Forget BMI, though that is a good number to know too, and don't get hung up on insurance charts, as they are made by insurance companies to promote their own interests. The way to calculate your ideal weight is this: Take your height, give a hundred pounds for your first five feet and five pounds per inch thereafter. That's all there is to it. If you are five feet, ten inches tall, your ideal weight is 150 pounds. Six feet tall, 160. I am six feet, one and three quarter inches tall, and my ideal weight is 168. I like that number, I look the best at 168, and I stay close to it.

So this is a thumb-rule for success in fitness and in longevity. Remember, you are working to slow your metabolism. High energy foods speed your metabolism. Just give a kid candy and watch him run wildly around. I have even seen fun science project books that show how you can use Oreo cookie filling, the white stuff, to make toy rocket propellant with, because there is so much sugar, fat, and energy in it. I have also read the formula that a single king-sized snickers bar, at 541 calories, has enough energy in it to bring a gallon and a half of water from freezing to boiling! That is a lot of energy, and you use to have two for a snack?

I am also pleased that this website is read around the world. My tracking device shows that "the sun never sets" on my work and I am pleased to share it with everyone. Thank yous go out to the nice people who have sent me great book reviews recently too! Live happy and take time to enjoy life each day.

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Patrick Swayze And Pancreatic Cancer

Patrick Swayze just died of pancreatic cancer. My mother died of it too, years ago. The thing the two of them had in common was they smoked. They both also loved animals. Patrick loved horses, my mother loved cats.

Pancreatic cancer doesn't just happen to good people. You have to work at getting it. If a person smokes cigarettes heavily for years, they are going to get lung cancer or pancreatic cancer. Smoking not only sends tars and ash into the lungs, but also down into the digestive system.

The pancreas is very sensitive to toxins and can become inflamed by gastric reflux, bacterial infection, and the chronic irritation of cigarette smoke and it's carcinogens. It has never ceased to amaze me how a grown person can smoke cigarettes! With all the knowledge now about how it causes cancer and how bad smoking is for you, you would think a light would go on somewhere and the person would stop. Surprisingly, they don't.

My mother was a heavy smoker, and reportedly, Patrick Swayze was too. Three packs of cigarettes a day are going to do harm. If not sooner, then later. My mother even had been in to have small growths removed from her tongue years before she got pancreatic cancer, and that still apparently didn't impress her. Patrick had warning signs as well.

The only up side to my mother dying of pancreatic cancer was that she never heard the diagnosis. She had premonitory signs that lead her doctors to wonder if she may have had a bad vertebral disc, since she had had back problems for years, but it wasn't until I told her to set an appointment to have more aggressive tests done, like an MRI and complete blood panel, that my mother finally got the diagnosis for her spinal discomfort.

Tragically, she slipped into a coma the weekend before her tests were to be done and she never awoke to hear the diagnosis or face her imminent death. I guess that part was not tragic, but salvithic for her to not have to know she was going to die soon. Three weeks after her diagnosis, she passed away.

In our mechanical society we often think of ourselves as somehow repairable, fixable, or strong like a piece of steel. The exact opposite is true. We are made of one hundred trillion tiny cells that are delicate like jelly and can be easily destroyed. Smoking and drinking are horrendous habits. Alcohol denatures your proteins and is a carcinogen too. Denatured proteins do not function well. Neither do cells that are coated in tars and carcinogens. If you smoke or drink, my recommendation is that you stop immediately. There are many methods and groups available to help you. Make the choice and do it today.

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No More Heart Attacks

Heart attacks are the number one killer in America. They can also come with a scary first symptom: sudden death. Many a death is described with the terms, "I don't know what happened, He just dropped dead!"

Heart attacks can be completely eliminated or drastically reduced in our lives. We need to think in terms of our coronary arteries and keeping them clear of fat. Fats store everywhere in our bodies and they like to follow the paths of least resistance. An open artery is a great place with little resistance for fat to accumulate in.

The now common triple bypass and quadruple bypass surgeries are something few people truly need to have done. If you are being told you need a cardiac bypass surgery, get a second opinion with a doctor that knows how to help you get on an ultra low fat diet. In a few weeks, your symptoms will disappear and your need for surgery will too.

Leanness is the secret to longevity. That is why I have a BMI calculator on this web site. The leaner you are the better. 20 is an ideal BMI. If you are below that you are either a model or someone who eats right every day.

Heart disease, cancer, stroke. Those are the three big killers of our day and surprisingly, all three are very preventable! Read more about this topic and learn of the technologies and techniques of real life extension in my book.

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Linus Pauling, Vitamin C, and Prostate Cancer

Mega doses of Vitamin C are no longer a fad health practice since the passing of two time winning Nobel Laureate, Linus Pauling. Dr. Pauling was a chemist and won his Nobel prizes in chemistry and peace. The Nobel in peace probably took a lot less studying to achieve than did the Nobel in chemistry, which anyone premed can tell you is the dividing line between those who go on to Med School, and those who don't.

Pauling lived to the age of ninety three and finally died from prostate cancer. He touted the benefits of vitamin C and took about twenty grams of it daily himself. Again, that is 20 Grams,

not twenty milligrams, which we know today is more than enough. Pauling also proclaimed that all vitamins are beneficial, and took large doses of the rest of them as well.

Pauling's real secret to longevity though was his practice of eating less. He had a slogan that said to live longer, eat half what you are eating today, take Vitamin C, and make love every day! The vitamin C most likely had a negligible improvement on his overall health. The eating half as much is what really kept him living longer, and the making love every day is what kept him so happy!

His prostate cancer is what finally got him. Prostate cancer occurs in most men as they get older. It's percentage of incidence is comparable to a man's age too. Sixty percent of men in their sixties have the presence of prostate cancer cells in their prostates. Eighty percent of men in their eighties have prostate cancer cells. At ninety three, Linus Pauling fell into the percentage of men that are ninety percent likely to have cancer cells in their prostates.

The good news for men is that the presence of these cancer cells does not necessarily mean they are going to die of prostate cancer. The cell changes are limited and do not spread radically. Sometimes they do, but most often they just create a slight hypertrophy of the prostate. Prostate cancer is the number one cancer that kills men. It's death rate is analogous to breast cancer in women.

Remember, you can reduce your incidence of all cancers by 95% by eating a low fat, low calorie diet. That sounds hard, but it is actually easy. Eating right is a skill and all you need to give it is a little practice.

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Celebrating My 100th Post

This is my 100th post on this blog site and I have to say it is an on going delightful experience! I am fascinated by the people who read my blog from around the globe. England, Germany, Australia, Chile, Argentina, Israel, South Africa, and Russia are a few of the places I have tracked visitors from.

My on going goals are to bring everyone the latest and most fun and interesting information on life extension technologies and techniques. I am also committed to being brutally honest about pills and snake oil products that claim life extension properties, but are more than likely bunk. Resveratrol is the latest of these products and I completely doubt it has any effect on making you live longer.

I want to note the passing this year of Dr. Roy Walford of http://www.walford.com/ who died at age 79 of ALS, Lou Gehrig's Disease, and did not have a chance to realize his life extension goals of living well over one hundred. He, along with Dr. Clive McCay of Cornell University, produced the quantified data that showed life can be extended in all animal species by fifty to sixty percent through a caloric restriction with optimal nutrition diet. We honor all the contributions made by Dr. Walford.

Even as a college student, when I was living at Wilshire Animal Hospital and working for Dr. Ian Coster, I was practicing the CRON diet, which I started at age twenty. I have slowed my metabolism, and it's effects over the past thirty years have been dramatic. I feel sorry for my contemporaries as they are already seeing the deleterious effects of a lifetime of overeating and drinking alcohol and smoking. All they can do from here is try to slow these processes down.

Here's to the next One Hundred Posts on my blog! During that time I will be downloading more of my first life extension book, in reverse order, so it can be read entirely from this blog, and I will be soon publishing my next book, Life Extension II, to bring further depth and detail to this exciting technology of how to live dramatically longer!

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How To Prevent Getting Cancer

Cancer literally means "crab." The name was used by the early Greeks because they noticed "legs" growing out of tumors. Cancers spread by growing radially outward and sending shoots of new growth along paths of least resistance through blood vessels and between other tissues.
Benign tumors are abnormal over growths of cells too, but they are usually contained and even often encapsulated in their own fibrous pouch. A benign tumor is easily removed, sometimes by even just sliding your hand around it and ligating off the blood vessels that supply it. Cancers are not easily removed and even with wide margin excision, unseen streams of cancer cells can be trailing off very far from the central mass.
Our immune system fights off cancer cells constantly, and it is estimated we generate about five cancer cells each year. With a properly functioning immune system though, you easily kill off these cells and they live a short life. About ten percent of all cancers spontaneously remit. That means the immune system suddenly fires up to peak performance and kills off all of even the worst cancer cells and tumors. Sometimes tumors even just drop off a person, depending on their location.
With a ten percent spontaneous remission rate, the association of miracles is made. Miracle drugs, miracle foods, miracles from above. I have seen many of these touted miracles, like laetrile when I was younger, and even yucca tree sap, now that I am older, and none of them work. It was just a coincidence that a person was taking that remedy, like shark cartilage, when they were lucky enough to spontaneously remit.
Real cancer prevention comes from caloric restriction with optimal nutrition. The over growth of cells in a body is mostly caused by too much energy in the system. Insulin-like growth hormones are an example. So called "oncogenes" otherwise known as cancer genes are usually just normal growth genes reactivated by the tidal flow of too much caloric energy being pumped into a body's system. Studies in animals and people have shown that even with the "genes" for cancer being present, the animal or person does not get the cancer on a calorie restricted diet. And this result comes with a 95% reduction in all cancers for animals or people who are calorie restricted. Those results are enough to impress me. So I have chosen to live this life style of eating right. It's a lot easier than you think. You just need to know the techniques! They are all in my book. Buy it today, share it with a friend, and prevent getting cancer which is a horrible and preventable disease.
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one hundred dollars per week. In a year you'll have that five thousand dollars.

What mission would you want? Let your imagination run wild for a while. What great endeavor would you undertake if you had no limitations? Would you be the first person to set foot on Mars? Would you convince NASA to build a hundred mile wide radio telescope out in space to search for extraterrestrial life and intelligence? Would you convince Congress to fund it? Would you act in a movie that sends you to stardom because you moved our very souls in a drama of the human experience? Would you end world hunger? Would you cure cancer? Just by spreading the word of this book, you can prevent many of your friends and family from getting cancer. It is a medical fact that calorie restriction reduces the incidence of all cancers dramatically!

These are the questions you must ask yourself as you take on this longer life. You're going to have a lot of time on your hands. You'll be entering a new age of fulfillment too. I personally have a hundred years planned. I hope my dietary formula takes me to 125, or even to 150, but I know I will easily make it to 100. At age fifty one today, I'm mapping out all the things I want to do for the next fifty years. I plan on working in human medicine for the next twenty five years. I hope to contribute great advances in life extension as well as produce treatments for some of the neurological diseases like MS (Multiple Sclerosis) and ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease).

This will be my second medical career after the rich and full medical career I have already had in veterinary medicine. You too, can take on whole other careers and fulfill the dreams of your life. If we all lived 120 to 150 years, you could have four to five complete careers. Think of the possibilities!

I met a physician years ago who was still practicing at 102

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Are Hot Dogs Good For You?

It depends on the type of hot dogs you are talking about! These two in the picture would be good for anyone!

My father told me that when he was a kid and hot dogs entered the food market, they were touted as the ultimate in nutrition! Imagine that, as they fall easily into the class of food we call "junk food" nowadays. They are composed of ground up, usually non-choice pieces of meat, and lots of fat and other fillers. So are they good for you? Let's just say there are better food choices, but if you want a hot dog once in a while, have one. Just add it into your calorie count for the day. That's the way I do it.

The real concern regarding life extension though, is the quantity of how much food you eat. Even if you eat nothing but the highest quality foods, too much of them are still bad for you, and eating too much of them is easily achieved. I saw a woman on a weight loss program that ate a bag of apples for a snack. She thought they were healthy, so "Hey, the more, the merrier, right."

Well, not exactly. The more the worse. A good thumb rule is only ever have one of anything a time. One apple, one sandwich, one drink. That's more than enough.

Real Life Extension is achieved through caloric restriction with optimal nutrition. Optimal nutrition is the easy part, just pick good foods. Caloric restriction is easy too and is the "How To"

subject of my book.

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years old. She said the secret is all diet. She said she only ate "vegetables and a bit of protein" at every meal. She was an amazing woman, and she was right on track.

Higher education makes life very interesting. After my years in human medicine, I plan on getting a third doctorate degree in either astronomy or psychology. I'll see how I feel about it when I reach age seventy-five. Studies at the doctorate level are the most fascinating because they take you to the frontiers of knowledge in that area. Some unknowns still amaze me. Do you know that no one really knows how anesthetics work? They work well, but the mechanisms of action have never been elucidated. There are still massive unknowns in how our brains work. Neuroscience is an open field of discoveries waiting to happen. The greatest unknown is the universe itself. What if we could understand how it started? What if we knew how it will end? Don't worry though, the universe is predicted to exist in it's present form for a trillion years. That's nine hundred and eighty-five billion years to go!

We've then talked about healthy, both mentally and physically, now let's talk about wealthy, both mentally and physically. How do we enrich our lives? With a hundred years to go, what else brings us the joys and pleasures we all desire? I think travel is essential to understanding our world and putting our lives in perspective. Where have you travelled to so far? Where would you like to travel to? What would be your dream vacation? Why don't you make a plan to make it happen?

Travel brings reality to the myths you may be harboring in your mind. I thought the French were going to be rude and brutal. They were not. They are polite, helpful, fun, interesting, and very friendly people. My whole preconception of France changed after I traveled there. The Eiffel Tower is real-

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Dieting Success And The BiModal Mind

Ever wonder why diets come with a 97% failure rate? Here's the answer: You have two halves to your brain! The logic centers, on the left, get it all perfectly. Eat right, exercise, maintain optimal weight. It's all so simple! For the left brain anyway. The right brain doesn't get it and even inverts or reverses the comprehension of the diet plan you are trying to complete. So you are left in a state of self-conflict that gives everyone that uncomfortable feeling when they are trying to diet. That state of anxiety is why most people quit dieting within two weeks of starting. Fascinating, huh?
The right brain, that is your right cerebral cortex, functions on a completely non-verbal level and it is often times called "unconscious" because it is mute, in the traditional language skills sense, at least. The right brain though, actually does speak, but in images, and often times this is the key to dieting success. The right brain also does not understand negatives. So you have to be extremely careful with your internal self-talk. Saying to yourself, "I don't want to be fat," says to your right brain, "I .... want to be fat." Scarey, isn't it?
The right brain also does not understand english, but messages are loosely translated as they go occasionally across your corpus callosum, the thin layer of connecting neural fibers that attach the left cerebral cortex to the right. The messages get misunderstood frequently because the left brain loves negatives, double negatives, and saying the opposite of what you really mean. New compliments in our society include, "that's sick, that's bad, and are you kidding me?" which are all negatives, reversed, and very confusing to your right brain.
So you have to learn dieting in images as well as in english. I have met many an obese person who can tell you exactly how to diet and how to be very successful at it. So why are they still obese? They are in constant conflict with their right brain and struggle and fail with the dieting process. Oprah Winfrey and Kirsty Alley are classic examples. They both can give expert advice on dieting, but are both very overweight. Kirsty has even been up to 228 pounds.
So what is the solution? First always speak to yourself in positive supportive words like, "This plan allows me to eat healthy and feel good," and "I like the steps I've taken to look and feel better, and yesterday I ate just perfectly." Sounds simplistic, but these phrases your right brain can understand clearly. Also, think in images. My favorite is the picture of the funnel. Emotional funneling is why most people overeat. Picture all your feelings of stress, boredom, anxiety, loneliness, and depression being funnelled into one emotion: Hunger! That's the problem. People think they are hungry because they are mislabeling their other emotions into the one they know how to manage; hunger, with food!
So use this new picture in your mind. Think of Arrows that go straight to their answer:
Tired=====>>>>>lay down and rest. Bored=====>>>>>Find something interesting to do. Lonely======>>>>>Call a family member or friend. This new image is already speaking to your right brain. It's already working for you! And when you stop funnelling > your emotions into one, you will become an extraordinary dieting success! Get the rest of the details from my book at: http://www.lifeextensionbooks.net/
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ly high up too. It gave me the creeps as I went higher and higher to the top with the girders narrowing in on me. I had to keep walking around at the top of it because if I stopped I could feel it moving and swaying a little, which at one thousand feet up, is very unnerving.

South Africa is a peaceful country, unlike the way it is depicted in the news media. My preconception was that we would have to dodge bullets as soon as we left the airplane and entered a race riot that would surely encompass the airport. You probably have to look hard to find racial conflict in South Africa. What I saw was two races living happily together, enjoying the beauty of the land and the riches of it's resources. The lions surprised me too. One afternoon, we went to a lion preserve and after we had toured it's open spaces and come back and held the lion cubs, I walked to where the buses were parked. Our bus was beside a large fenced-in field with a group of lions in it. I sat down by the fence to relax and wait for our tour group to return. The lions saw me and got up and strolled over and sat down right beside me and waited with me as the afternoon sun was setting.

We communed on a primitive level, but we understood each other and engaged in a nonverbal communication of greeting, interest, and appreciation for the joy of each other's company. My wife at that time was enchanted by the majesty of those creatures. I told her they are our cousins and we share a common ancestor from millions of years ago. Our relatives, but now of a very different race. They carried with them a nobility that we all should aspire to.

Egypt gave me a sense of all that can be lost. Seven thousand years ago it was the greatest nation on earth. There is far more than the three pyramids in Giza you always see. There

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Are You Full Of Foam Cells?

Key cells in our immune system are called macrophages. Translated literally to "Big Eaters," these macrophages have lives of their own and go where they want and do what they please. In fact, twenty percent of all our cells are mobile are direct themselves to where they are going and what they are doing. Macrophages though are huge and can gobble up dead cells and debris anywhere in your body. They are key to the healing process and key to clearing up infections. I have seen micro-movies showing macrophages each taking in dozens of bacteria per second.
Macrophages though like fat, and if it is readily available, they will go and fill themselves up on it and then hide in sequestered areas of the body. Once full of fat, these macrophages appear foamy or bubbly inside, thus the name "foam cells." Sometimes even creating hidden areas like the plaques in your blood vessels that are called atherosclerosis, or hardening of the arteries. Once they hide in a plaque, they change and they no longer are fighters for the immune system. They now are a problem to the immune system.
So how do you prevent your macrophages from becoming foam cells? Eat a very low fat diet. A diet composed of ten percent fat or less will actually even reverse the accumulation of atheriosclerotic plaques in your arteries. You don't need to have cardiac bypass surgery. You can reverse heart disease with diet alone. Making dietary choices has never been easier than it is today. The fat content of almost all foods is right on the label of the food you buy. So look for foods that are ten percent fat content or less, like the skim milk I buy, which has zero calories from fat. The raspberries I buy are zero percent fat too. It's just that simple. If a food is more than twenty percent fat by total calories, then try to avoid it.
A fatty meal will actually even cloud your blood for many hours with milky white fat. This fat will even stick to the walls of a blood tube and distort your blood results. That's why your doctor has you fast before doing a blood test. Keeping fat globules out of your blood stream is easy and it will keep you from getting heart disease, cancer, stroke, Alzheimer's disease, diabetes, and all the other most common diseases causing death today.
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are hundreds of pyramids. And temples the size of small cities. Math and science started there. Medicine started there. The riches of the Pharaohs dwarfed by far any riches of today's billionaires. But now, Egypt is a third-world country, barely able to supply water and electricity to it's people. What happened? Was their downfall inevitable? Maybe. History has shown that no great nation dominates the world for more than four hundred years. And strangely, four hundred years is the cycle. It made me wonder if the United States is on the decline side of the curve of our peak in the sixties when we accomplished the impossible and put astronauts on the moon. That was certainly our peak. What have we done since? What will we do in the future?

We should have gone on to Mars and established a moon base and Mars colony. We should have large telescopes on the dark side of the moon where our view of the universe would be incredible. We should have created a compelling future for America, the likes of which would still be inspiring and engaging us today.

Wealthy is the second state of being you want to achieve in life. Wealth is more than money. It's how you feel about yourself. Do you feel rich? Do you have all you want? Do you have all you need? Do you want more? Isn't it amazing how one single object, the dollar bill, can be the center of our lives?

My observations of life, from having worked so long with people and animals, is that all of life comes down to just three things: Eat, survive, and reproduce. You can reduce these three things down to one, survival, if you like, because that word alone covers everything else. You eat to survive and reproduce to survive too. But just as we can reduce all of life to one word and one function, surviving, we can expand all of

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Resveratrol and The French Paradox

Resveratrol is the new snake oil in the world of life extension. It came out of the studies from France that are known as The French Paradox. So here's the thinking that generated this new highly hyped, but still unproven, elixir of life for living longer no matter what else you do to yourself.
The French people live statistically longer than the populations of most other developed countries. The French are also known for their red wine. Even Jeanne Calment, a French woman who lived to 122 years old, loved the French red wine. She also loved chocolates, but that's another story. So putting two and two together, it must be the red wine that is making the French people live longer, right? Maybe, but I am doubtful the red wine has anything to do with the French people living longer.
They are probably living longer "In Spite Of" drinking red wine, which is my own personal theory. Having travelled to France several times and truly enjoying each of my trips there, I did notice the one thing that most likely is why the French people live longer than most. They Eat Less! French meals are small and you almost feel ripped off after paying fifty dollars for a meal that could fit on a teacup saucer. France though is the only country I have travelled to, among thirty others, that does eat right. Amazing for this to be their national standard.
The French Paradox is also exaggerated by the curiosity that the French like to eat cheese with their red wine. They also like fatty meats and butter on everything. Still the answer here is that they don't eat much of these cheeses, meats, and butter. Their portions are very small. I even clearly recall a three dollar ice cream cone I had that had three scoops of ice cream on the cone that were each the size of a marble. Not very satisfying for the price.
So this resveratrol will most likely fall to the wayside just like Vitamin C did after Linus Pauling was done hyping it. Because that's all it was, just hype. The skins of red grapes are probably not bad for you, but eating too much of them probably will be.
So the French Paradox comes with a lesson learned. Eat less. Eat right. And you will live longer. Eat resveratrol and overeat and drink heavily and you surely won't live longer. It fascinates me still how even great scientists can get so distracted over the prospect of selling some new extract that they ignore the real scientific evidence right in front of their eyes. Life Extension is currently only achieved through Caloric Restriction with Optimal Nutrition. These are known, proven, and even quantified life extending effects. Calorie restriction slows your basal metabolism. That's how you and all the other animal species this has been tested on live longer. It's easy to do and you can learn how in the pages of my book.
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