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    Fountain of Youth Diet
    Fountain of Youth Diet
    Fountain of Youth Diet
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    Fountain of Youth Diet

    By Doug Darroch

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    Everyone knows that there are cultures around the world that live longer than the rest of us. While we have studied these specific cultures I wanted to know not only what cultures lived the longest worldwide and why but most importantly what they had in common. Some of the things that I discovered were surprising, some were expected. By taking what these longevity cultures have in common I have a blue print of 7 rules for longevity that will help anyone live a healthier and longer life.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDoug Darroch
    Release dateOct 16, 2012
    ISBN9781301393701
    Fountain of Youth Diet
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    Doug Darroch

    San Diego small business owner and family man.

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      Fountain of Youth Diet - Doug Darroch

      Fountain of Youth Diet,

      Your Health Guide to Longevity

      Doug Darroch

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      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2012 Doug Darroch

      License Notes: This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this ebook with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each person you share it with. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then you should return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Fountain of Youth Diet,

      Your Health Guide to Longevity

      Part 1

      Thank you for purchasing this book. I hope that it is an easy read that you can't put down because those are the types of books that I love the most.

      I began researching longevity on my own a few years ago. It was something that interested me because I love life and I believe we are only here for a blink of an eye. It seems like yesterday I was a child playing with my friends and siblings hoping summer would never end. Tomorrow I'll be playing with my grandchildren and the day after that my great-grand children. I not only want to try and enjoy every day as much as possible but just as important, I want to squeeze as much blood out of this rock of a lifetime as I can. While live every day like it's your last is a nice quote, besides Saturdays or some vacation days, it's not usually very realistic. I work: a lot. I'm a parent: a good one. I'm not wealthy: yet. In general I'm very busy, everyone is and choosing a day full of things I might do if I knew this was my last day on Earth is not something I'm interested in or able to do right now. I'm working hard now so that I can enjoy life as much as possible when I'm older, the sooner the better.

      A majority of seniors in America live a sad existence. Working their life away for a corporation that will never care about them and dreaming about their two weeks of vacation every year. Once retirements come the nest egg is so small that selling the home you worked your whole life for to pay for your retirement community is the next step. Now you spend your last years alone in a room at your retirement community and instead of waiting for your two weeks of vacation you wait for holidays and a few other special events every year to see your family.

      This is not a path I'm interested in taking. Living in America and deciding on a nice work life balance is not really an option. Australia, France and Brazil to name a few are nations that seem to have figured out how to have work support an enjoyable and happy lifestyle and not the other way around.

      While I believe that nations that have a fantastic work life balance is something to envy, I live in America and if I want to get ahead I better work very hard while I'm young. This leaves me knowing that the very best case scenario is that I can try to semi-retire and escape the American rat race at the youngest age possible. Young being a relative term compared to my fellow retirees.

      I do not want to retire and be too old to enjoy life. I want to do everything I can to have a long and healthy lifestyle. I want people my age to wonder how I stay so young. I want people I don't know to do a double take when I tell them my age. What's the point? So that I'm spending my golden years loving life, meeting new friends, traveling, keeping up with people much younger than me, spending so much time with my friends and family that they get tired of me and living everyday like it's my last.

      I want to know why people in the Mediterranean and South East Asia live so long. What do these cultures that seem so different on the surface have in common? What other cultures have great longevity and what do they have in common with the well-known ones? What similar traits do all people that live to be over 100 worldwide have?

      Are there amazing secrets to longevity or is it exactly what you would expect? I really had no clue to what the results would be and here is what I discovered.

      Spending Money on Healthcare Does Not Help You Live Longer

      Nations that spend a large amount on healthcare compared to nations that do not have almost no correlation in longevity for its citizens (1). The United States which surprisingly spends a large amount of money on healthcare compared to its gross domestic product has a very high obesity rate. South Korea spends very little on healthcare compared to GDP and South Koreans live longer than Americans.

      Lifestyle, culture and prevention are what result in longevity. The Japanese live very healthy lifestyles compared to Americans resulting in a 4% obesity rate among the Japanese versus a 34% obesity rate in America.

      In the past hundred years we have almost doubled our life expectancy from our 40's to our 80's. What are the biggest changes in our lifestyles that have produced these results?

      Immunizations - Children dying from disease used to be so common that most families had one childhood death from preventable diseases. Immunizations have been a huge accomplishment and the thought of a child dying from a preventable disease is no longer common in modern nations.

      Vehicle safety - When I was young it was acceptable to ride around in the back of pick-up trucks and seatbelts were optional when riding in a car. Most people can remember their parents extending their arm in front of them when coming to a sudden stop, as if that would have been much help in a bad accident. Modern cars are built for safety. Seat belt laws, DUI punishments and speed limits have all contributed to things being much safer when you ride in a car these days.

      Workplace safety- A good portion of common jobs used to be extremely dangerous with little concern for employee safety. While you might hate sitting in a cubicle, it's much better than mining, logging or building a bridge with no employee safety regulations.

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