[Hervé]

.....and amazingly life expectancy keeps rising

Mostly Hygiena... Medecin research... helicopter rescue... easy life... heated house.. clean slaughterhouses... etc... BUT I believe if we payed even more attention to what we eat... (and remember you are only what you eat.. still true) we could even live longer.. at the condition to have a good genetic patrimony.. (aka healthy ancestors.. I am pretty much "beurré" for that.. hehe .. if I look my genealogic tree.. I have it here... it goes back to 1685... most die at 85.. to 100 years old... the ones that die very early in these times were the paysants... and because they were a large number, the avarage death age fell to 25/45 years old... remember the earth pollution was closed to 0...

The counter point is that the more we are on Earth.. the more these benefits will fal in Toilets..

ahhh I forgot... Eat Sardines if you like fish... why Sardines..? because sardines are the predator of no other fish... !!! (very important..)

Local farmer..? very good Adrian.. !

[Hybaj]

Herve : Eat sardines and eat all the mercury which is in them

No really i'm a strict whole-food eater with a 70 to 30 ratio of uncooked VS cooked. It's crazy how the organic (in europe it's called BIO) shops are full of garbage processed stuff which acts superior just because this or that ingredient was grown without pesticides. Man such BS. Even though a shop is full of organic crap there's only like 9% of things I can buy which fits my diet.

I don't know how my healthy lifestyle (I also train 3x times a week with the weights and also do some cardio) will affect my life expectancy but my immunity is beyond the average immunity of my classmates so for 2,5 years (it's exactly 2,8 years i'm living healthy.. it takes some time for the body to catch on) I don't know what's a runny nose, flu, infections or any kinds of bowel problems... also my allergies are as good as gone.

I also have to say I love your sugar advice Herve! Anything sweet in higher amounts is very unhealthy. Honey too my friend. The issue is in how the sugars raise the plasma glucose levels which affect the phagocytosis of leukocytic cells. It doesn't matter if it's sucrose, fructose or glucose in what you eat. Hell even juices are not that good. The slower the carb is the better.

Check this well known study http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/reprint/26/11/1180 or this simple article http://www.second-opinions.co.uk/leukocytic_index.html

What's great about not eating sugar at all is that after some time your craving decrease so much that you can go on 2 weeks without even eating fruit and not noticing it.

[Hervé]

mmmm.. indeed sugar is the main enemy... fat is "ok", since human eats fat since cave man period... BUT com'on... Sardines... I got to eat some fish...

btw, there is a controversy about sushis... they're not "that " good for your health... at least not as good as people think...
(ok, yes I do hate suhis.. hehe..)

(like you said... high mercury..)

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/23/dining/23sushi.html

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/ ... lth-risks/

http://commentditon.blogspot.com/2007/0 ... r-you.html

[KurtS]

"sushi-and-diet-soda-not-so-good-for-you.html"

hehe, don't even need to klick on that one - I've got the point
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