VALTER LONGO
While Italian families believe that they eat a healthy diet, the reality is otherwise.
- Most Italian families believe that they follow a Mediterranean diet, but in reality, only 20% do so.
- Bread, pasta, pizza, potatoes, plus rice, fruit and fruit juice are consumed daily by Italian children; yet these foods are quickly converted to the equivalent of 5 cans of soda or 10 tablespoons of sugar.
- Italy is not so different from the United States, as one might believe: 4 in every 10 children in Italy are overweight, and 2 obese.
VALTER LONGO HAS DEVELOPED THE FIRST PRACTICAL AND SUSTAINABLE DIET TO IMPROVE YOUR FAMILY’S HEALTH, AND ESPECIALLY YOUR CHILDREN’S.
DO YOU WANT YOUR CHILDREN TO LIVE UP TO 110 YEARS OLD?
THEN START NOW: THE ROAD TO LONGEVITY BEGINS IN CHILDHOOD.
“La longevità inizia da bambini”, a guide grounded in scientific research, can help you change your child’s bad eating habits and at the same time help you rethink your family’s diet. It is guaranteed to revolutionize your health.
At what age does nutrition begin to determine our chances of living longer? The answer is: from the very youngest age, even from birth. In his best-selling book, The Longevity Diet, Valter Longo—one of the foremost experts in the world on the link between nutrition, longevity, and health, shows that the major diseases in adulthood are tied to aging and that the right strategy based on a specific nutritional plan and exercise is the key to enjoying a better quality of life.
Together with pediatric specialists, nutritionists, and other experts, Longo explains the importance of planting the seeds for a long and healthy life, even from pregnancy. Citing alarming data, the book first debunks myths about health and overweight children and adolescents in Italy and highlights the failure of parents to recognize and resolve this problem. In response, he proposes an innovative nutritional plan to prevent or eliminate excess weight as well as to reduce the onset of diseases caused by what some claim are the worst eating habits we have witnessed so far in Italian history. Underscoring the efficacy of these nutritional plans aimed at promoting longevity— plans developed in his laboratory, this book rejects extreme dieting and instead adopts a strategy based on our country’s alimentary traditions and those of other countries known for their own high rates of longevity. Longo advocates a diet that is abundant and particularly rich is anti-aging properties: the key to staying healthy until 110 years.
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“The book stands out for the way it manages to convey concepts [on nutrition] in an informative, scientific, and yet accessible way to scientists as well as families, patients and health care workers.”
Salvatore Cucchiara, Professor of Pediatrics and Pediatric Gastroenterology, Università Sapienza di Roma (Rome, Italy)