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What is the perfect diet? Wellness guru and longevity thought leader Marcus Pearce has the answer.
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and vegetables, while in Okinawa, Japan, the traditional diet of rice, fish, tofu, vegetables and very little fruit has remained unchanged for centuries. What this teaches us is that there is no one diet that suits all human beings. However, what any culture, across any period of time, can agree on as being the best diet for human beings is best summed up by Michael Pollan in Food Rules : “Eat food. Mostly plants. Not too much.” This is an edited extract from Your Exceptional Life by Marcus Pearce, founder of the Exceptional Life Blueprint and CEO of the Wellness Couch podcast network and host of the Go Vita podcast. Your Exceptional Life is available now in your local Go Vita store, or from www.marcuspearce.com.au
the planet to study groups of people who were noted for their longevity, they discovered a number of dietary similarities – but also many differences. For example, in the European ‘Blue Zones’ of Ikaria and Sardinia, where people routinely live past the age of 90, they eat the classical Mediterranean diet of vegetables, fruit, herbs, beans, bread, olive oil and wine. In Loma Linda, California, there is a group of Seventh Day Adventists who follow a strict vegetarian or vegan diet, and who outlive the rest of the American population. Further south, in the ‘Blue Zone’ of Nicoya, Costa Rica, people eat corn, eggs, rice, beans, wild fruits
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