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Walford offers a very practical, yet completely inspirational approach to living a healthier, longer life. The first third of the book describes his ideas which are based entirely on a solid foundation of research. He talks further about his experience as the doctor in Biosphere2 and the pertinence of that experience on longevity research in humans. It is really very readable. I enjoyed it so much that I couldn't put it down, and read it through twice! When I showed the book to my Dad, a very logical, sceptical research professor at UCLA, he liked it so much that he immediately bought himself a copy.

The rest of the book is full of suggested recipes, a sample week's menu, and practical step-by-step instructions for incorporating the anti-aging plan into your life.

It's working for me. Good luck to you!

As to why Dr. Walford is `enfeebled` - if the other reviewer (who seems to have an economic interest in some other book being sold) had done some research he would have found out that Dr, Walford has a medical condition due to gas exposure that is quite unrelated to his diet. Mocking someone who has problems walking due to a medical condition to sell another book is horrible. If you have problem with the mans book or research then by all means bring it to light. But to attack a man due to a medical condition brought about through no fault of his own is quite petty.

Walford is also an engaging guide. The tone is hype free, and the book is full of sensible and balanced advice about how to adopt such a diet in a safe, sustainable and relaxed way. I particularly appreciate his guidance that you should use your common sense and leave the calorie counter at home on social occasions, and that the occasional treat will cause no harm. This is a pleasant contrast to puritanical approach of many low-carb authors.

The problems begin when he starts to advise on food choices. He is out of his field here, and it shows. Dr Walford has swallowed uncritically the increasingly discredited lipid hypothesis for coronary heart disease (see the work of Ravnskov for a devastating overview of the commercial interests, sloppy thinking, bias and outright academic fraud that lies behind this proposition).

As a result, Walford is positively phobic about nutritious and stable fats such as butter and tropical oils, which have been eaten without problems for millennia. Instead, he proposes that we adopt corn oil for general cooking (processed corn oil is an unstable and damaged oil, which is farther damaged by heat), and the new-fangled and suspect canola oil for baking. Instead of butter, we would apparently be better off using a synthetic product called "Butterbuds". The recipes also make heavy use of other suspect ingredients such as non-fermented soy and dried skimmed milk. And, bizarrely, he classifies Coca-Cola and cream soda as "wholesome beverages".

The Biosphere team achieved their remarkable results with fresh and wholesome products they farmed for themselves. But Walford appreciates that this diet would be too plain for wide acceptance, and offers us what he calls a "gourmet" version in the book. Common sense suggests that some of the benefits would be offset by the nutritional problems outlined above. However many of the menus can be easily adapted to use more traditional and safer ingredients. And the authors also market an affordable and unique software programme that can analyse a meal plan and suggest ingredients that would plug any nutritional gaps, so it should be possible to develop your own low calorie nutrient-complete meals with a little effort.

Apart from the rather major caveat above, this is a valuable guide to an important development in the field of nutrition. Well worth reading.

I've never followed one of their recipes however. They are not too complicated but often mention ingredients that I've never heard of. In several recipes I've seen them using Spanish words instead of the English equivalents.

The recipes are interesting, sometimes imaginative, but never inspiring.

Plus I was unable to find anything as reference below regarding an article published by AARP.

Please check, and double check, your facts before decrying another person's efforts to find viable health alternatives.

But I learned how to stay young and live longer through The Elixxir Program. It uses Caloric Restriction as its scientific foundation but turns it into something doable, livable, even pleasurable. It is beyond CR, really! This guy Elixxir has been on the program for almost 25 years, much longer than Walford. Elixxir looks much younger than his age! I have seen him up close! (Walford looks older than his age, sad to say.)

Read The Immortalist Manifesto, available on Amazon, and you will get excerpt and information about The Elixxir Program at the end.

As Marilyn Much of Investors' Business Daily writes "Elixxir is the only anti-aging guru who has actually stayed young!"

This important fact demands full disclosure in all of Walford's books. Why has not Dr. Roy Walford revealed it so we can decide if we want to buy his book and his regimen? To hide this fact is at the very least unethical on his part, and on the part of his publisher. So Buyer Beware!

I believe the scientific evidence is abundant that caloric restriction can retard aging and extend life. So obviously Dr. Walford has either not really been on it, or has not done it right!

I for one am not interested in an anti-aging guru who grows old faster, more horribly, than normal people on a junk diet.

According to Times story, "By almost anyone's standards, Dr. Roy L. Walford is an old man. At 79, he is confined to an electric wheelchair and his voice is so weak, he speaks into a microphone wired to a small tabletop amplifier...Dr. Walford...is..dying..."

If you really want to retard aging and extend your lifespan, why model yourself on a failed anti-aging guru? Someone who is prematurely dying?

Don't be conned by the uncritical reviews by Walford's little sect of true believers.

Check out The ImmorTalist Manifesto: Stay Young & Save the World" on Amazon. This is not a diet book. But it will lead you to The Elixxir Program.

Elixxir has been called "the only anti-aging guru who has actually stayed young." (Investor's Business Daily)

So if you're like me, you would rather model yourself on an anti-aging guru who's not prematurely old and dying, but one who has stayed young!

The Elixxir Program cuts out all the needless puritanism and self-deprivation and abstinence from wine, etc. in Walford's regimen. And leaves in what is scientific and what works.

P.S. Walford's condition is sad and tragic. But it is absolutely unethical and probably legally liable for him to not reveal this in his books. So that you can take it into consideration. So your choice is Walford or Elixxir?

Walford is a total invalid! And I checked the old mail on the CR (caloric restriction) list and discovered many members of the list were shocked when that story came out.

Dr. Walford should have had the decency to give us a FULL DISCLOSURE of his physical condition in this and his other book, of which this is a rehash. So we can decide whether to buy his books or not. I would not if I had known.

He claims of course it has nothing to do with his interpretation of how CR should be done. But I am not at all persuaded. I have concluded he is doing CR wrong. And that we follow his prescription at our own risk.

It's obvious many of the "rave" reviews here are from a few members of his small but very cultic mailing list. They will never tell you this shocking fact -- that their anti-aging life-extension guru Dr. Walford cannot even walk! That he is doing worse than most seventy-somethings who shovel down all the calories!

Well, I feel totally deceived. And stunned! I want my money back! This is completely unethical. It is deceptive advertising to say the least. Go to AARP website and find that article in their archive or ask them for it. And read for yourself about Dr. Walford's shocking physical state.