John Robbins

One of the most remarkable findings of modern scientific research is that no intervention, including the elimination of smoking, has been found to be as important in overall life extension as cutting back on calories while maximizing dietary nutrients.

It is a poignant sign of our times when the largest-selling board game in the world today is Monopoly, in which the goal is to bankrupt your opponents and amass all wealth unto yourself. More than two hundred million Monopoly sets have been sold, and the game is currently produced in twenty-six languages.

... the word “retirement” does not exist in the traditional Okinawan dialect.

Is it a coincidence that the countries ranked first and second in the world in terms of wealth equality (Japan and Sweden) are also ranked first and second in life expectancy? And is it a coincidence that the United States, which ranks last among industrialized countries in terms of wealth equality now ranks nearly last in life expectancy?

But as Edward Stanley put it way back in 1873, “Those who think they have no time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness.

Dr. Paffenbarger and his associates tracked their subjects’ health and activity levels for four decades and found that participants death rates fell in direct proportion to the number of calories they burned each week. Almost invariably, the more active they were, the longer they lived.