The youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iddFlIcxQi4
Dr John Scharffenberg’s advice for a long and healthy life: Eat at the proper time (no snacking), a variety of natural (not processed) food in quantities for ideal weight.
The seven risk factors:
- Tobacco
- Alcohol
- Inactivity
- Being overweight – Exercise!
- Too much meat and sugar
- High blood pressure
- High blood cholesterol
Nos 1-5 (lifestyle changes) will already take care of Nos 6-7. It can lower the risk of heart attack and stroke by 80%, diabetes by 88%. Dr Sharffenberg is a Seventh-Day Adventist ovo-lacto vegetarian. He only eats breakfast and lunch daily. No dinner. And he likes Chinese wok-cooked vegetables. He has never smoked or drunk alcohol.
He is such a nice person to listen to, too! He speaks in such simple language and contexts that makes it so engaging, appealing and relatable. I personally loves what he says about cholesterol. That’s something I’ve always believed in because my mother’s side of the family all have very high cholesterol. I’ve done my own research on cholesterol for years and my own research differs from the mainstream information that most doctors dish out to patients. But that would be another story for another platform altogether. But please, if you have concerns about cholesterol, please listen to Dr Scharffenberg. He explains it so, so well.
He also says doctors should learn about nutrition (which they don’t now, in their medical course). I’d like to say the same for veterinarians too. I hope their course would include study on pet nutrition too.
IF I ever do live until 100, I hope to have a brain as sharp as Dr Scharffenberg! And be as eloquent as he is in explaining things where he is an expert, with such a pleasant demeanour!
