Luigi Cornaro, a Venetian
nobleman, was one of the most celebrated centenarians, who lived from 1464 to
1566 AD.
In his youth,
Luigi had abused his health with a wanton lifestyle leading to an extremely weak constitution, accompanied by many physical
ailments.
At the age of thirty-five, he was given up by his
physicians to die. Luigi’s physicians prescribed a temperate lifestyle as the
only way to end his suffering and preserve his fragile life. That temperate
lifestyle was no more than self-restraint or self-discipline in diet and drink for calorie restriction.
He lived on that
minimal diet of calorie restriction from age thirty-five until eighty-five,
when his relatives began to urge him to eat a little more since he was getting
old and he required more physical strength. He complied to their request, and began to eat a little more than he used to for the past decades. Luigi reluctantly agreed to increase his
food intake from twelve to fourteen ounces. Immediately, he became seriously
ill with high fever. Eventually, Luigi had the longevity wisdom to revert to
his former anti-aging living with a diet of calorie restriction. As a result,
he lived in a state of unbroken health and happiness until the age of one
hundred and two.
Luigi was famous
for his longevity living in relation to calorie restriction. He expressed his wisdom
in his discoursed when he was in his eighties and nineties. His wisdom has been
an inspiration for more than five centuries. His longevity wisdom was simple
and down-to-earth:
Never overeat.
His diet consisted of only twelve ounces a day of solid foods of bread, a
vegetable soup with tomato, an egg yolk, and a little meat, divided into two
meals, and fourteen ounces pure grape juice, also divided into two servings.
Can you eat as little as Luigi did?
Well, the bottom line is: always eat less; eat only when you're hungry.Don't eat because it's lunch or dinner time. Remember, you will never die of hunger, but you might die of overeating.
Well, the bottom line is: always eat less; eat only when you're hungry.Don't eat because it's lunch or dinner time. Remember, you will never die of hunger, but you might die of overeating.
The key to Luigi’s ant-aging living and longevity wisdom was calorie
restriction, or how much he ate:
The moral lesson from the incredible story of Luigi is simple: The key to
health and happiness is inextricably associated with the quantity of food you
consume daily; and the science of health or anti-aging living is simply eating
less or consuming fewer calories.
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