Let's Get Oriented

Not many years ago, about all a physician asked himself when he saw a new patient was "What disease does this patient have

, that I can cure it?" Today's physicians are beginning to add the question "What diseases will this patient have, that I can prevent them?" In early Chinese medicine, the patient paid the doctor only as long as he stayed well. When the patient got sick, the doctor paid. Imagine how different American medicine would be today if such a system prevailed. Whoever you are, reading this book, I can tell you with more than 75 percent accuracy that you will die of heart attack, hypertension, stroke, cancer, diabetes, kidney failure, or complications arising from osteoporosis. It's sad but safe to make this prediction because three out of four Americans do indeed succumb to these major killer diseases. Fortunately, you can do a great deal to cut your chances of being struck down by any of them. But avoiding them is just part of what you must do to live longer and better. Even if everyone of the killer diseases is prevented or cured, still you will grow old, and at about the same old rate. Your skin will dry out and wrinkle, your hair will thin and turn gray, your sight will dim, your hearing capacity will decline. You'll get heavier and shorter. Your muscles will shrink; your joints will stiffen. Your heart will pump blood less well; your lungs will take in less oxygen, and your tissues will use the oxygen less efficiently. Your kidney function will diminish and your endocrine glands secrete a lower level of hormones . Your breasts will sag or your erection flag; your resistance to infection will be less than a fourth what it was in your youth. There will be slowing of your reaction time to a stimulus, such as the sight of a car hurtling toward you. Some phases of your learning process will slow down, with a lapse in memory for recent events, such as what movie you saw three nights ago. You may not come down with a major disease, but your vulnerability to changes in your environment, the weather, and your personal life will markedly increase with age. Finally you will die from what for a young person might not be a serious problem at all: a mild attack of the flu will become the big sleep, or you won't manage to jump out of the way of that speeding red Pontiac. It's like a lion at the door, And when the door begins to crack, It's like a stick across your back And when your back begins to smart It's like a penknife in your heart, And when your heart begins to bleed You're dead, and dead, and dead indeed .

Even if we avoid disease, we age just about as I've described, because aging is not itself a disease but the last stage of development. I am going to tell you how this unpleasant process of aging can be slowed down and even postponed to a much later time in life than it would otherwise occur. The method mainly involves losing weight gradually on a carefully selected diet that is high in nutrition but low in calories, or what I shall refer to as the "high/ low" diet. In conservative scientific circles, what I recommend will be regarded as more or less "controversial." That's another way of saying "not completely verified." Whether one should recommend measures to prevent disease and retard aging for which there is strong evidence that they do indeed work, but which are not 100 percent verified, will evoke different and sometimes heated opinions from biologists and medical doctors.

by: Peter Gitundu

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