Eat to Live Forever with Giles Coren

(Rosemary Easter) #1

Did anyone watch this programme tonight on BBC4? Made me laugh! Giles Coren looked into extreme diets to see if he could achieve longevity. The first diet was Calorie Restriction featuring two old people who did not look very well at all. Turned out they were about 65 - my age - so don’t do that!
Next he went to Paleocon and met Mark Sisson and Brad Kearns and a lot of pretentious people. Giles’ doctor did not think much of keto paleo.
Lastly he met up with a lot of fruitarians, all young. His doctor thought you should definitely not cut out a food group such as carbs and of course eating too much fat and meat was detrimental.

(Rosemary Easter) #2

Forgot to say the Calorie Restricters were vegan.

('Jackie P') #3

:sob:

(Rosemary Easter) #4

He also met a raw carnivore who definitely looked the healthiest of them all, unfortunately he did not say how old he was but his dad looked to be in his 70s.