--- product_id: 134897086 title: "The Longevity Diet: Slow Aging, Fight Disease, Optimize Weight" price: "£25.48" currency: GBP in_stock: true reviews_count: 8 url: https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/134897086-the-longevity-diet-slow-aging-fight-disease-optimize-weight store_origin: GB region: United Kingdom --- # The Longevity Diet: Slow Aging, Fight Disease, Optimize Weight **Price:** £25.48 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The Longevity Diet: Slow Aging, Fight Disease, Optimize Weight - **How much does it cost?** £25.48 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.co.uk](https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/134897086-the-longevity-diet-slow-aging-fight-disease-optimize-weight) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Review: Excellent & Extremely Informative - I have been an avid follower of Professor Valter Longos’s work and studies since first seeing a BBC Documentary in 2012 - Eat, Fast & Live Longer. This man is nothing short of a genius. Having gone through my own health problems: Bulimia, then a massive benign tumour in my head which lead me to an operation and then into intensive radiation treatment I found his studies fascinating, insightful & inspiring to me personally & I wanted to know & learn more. Over the past 2 decades I have either been, bulimic, vegan, vegetarian, or now for the last 15 years pescatarian at which time I had no idea that such a name even existed. When I found out that Professor Longo had written a book on Longevity I couldn’t wait for it to be published in English. I have a Kindle copy and a book. His book has given me so much knowledge that I didn’t previously have and the information is easy enough to process if you take the trouble. For me, where his book stands out from many other books is that most of the information in this book is based on his own studies and research from throughout his 30 something years of study & research on Longevity. There are no gimmicks just straightforward facts on longevity & how to proceed with his longevity diet with the everyday fruits, vegetables, legumes etc. that we find in our supermarkets or farmers markets. He clearly explains why & which fruits, veg etc are better for you. How simple can it be to follow a mostly plant-based diet - but the truth be known for most of us is that we will continue to eat bad & fast food until the heart attack hits or our cholesterol is through the roof, or like so many people in the Western World we develop diabetes. He clearly explains how we can avoid or correct these problems by using his longevity diet. The book is entertaining as well as full of necessary, important information for living a longer & disease- free life. Prevention is always better than cure. I am a writer and in my own research I have read many, many articles with misinformed information, on many different subjects & I only want facts & proven studies as in this book. Lastly, 100% of all the royalties from Professor Longo’s books go back into his research, another great reason to purchase the book. I promise you, you will not be disappointed. Review: Wonderful book! - I bought this book about 4 months ago - before the world changed as we knew it. Loved it from the start especially the story behind it, wonderful tales of the authors childhood in Italy, how the people lived and ate in his villiage and the incredible longevity of his people (all the more terribly shocking given what is happening at the moment re. Coronavirus and the toll it has taken on this great country and especially its elders). The engaging manner makes this book so different to others of its kind - this is not just a book which tells you that intermittent fasting is good for you, this goes so much deeper and the recepies Dr Valter Longo gives for this "Fast" are so delicious I find myself cooking many of them without any thought of fasting. One of my favourites is Pasta e Vaianeia. I cook this dish at least once a week , it is so satisfying and filling it gives you good energy and you feel so much better after eating this. I reccommend this to everyone to wants to start eating healthy food, never mind fasting. I did the "fast" for 2 months and when I reached my desired weight I had got so used to eating the recepies in this book i just continued using them . This is the Real way to eat. 9 months later........... This book has changed my life. I could never understand the Italian pride in their food and their cooking but I must admit I am a confirmed advocate of eating this way. Never would I have believed that a pot full of boiled veggies could taste good. Growing up in Ireland in the 1960s, our staple diet was meat, spuds and 1 veg. I hated dinner time and was a problem child when it came to eating. If only I had eaten the recipes in Dr Longo's book back then......... Between childhood and adulthood I developed an addiction to sugar, something I have been able to quit 5 years ago. These recipies are wonderful for satisfying a sweet tooth and since eating like this, sugar cravings are behind me. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | 619,860 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) 115 in General Medical Issues Guides 193 in Low Fat Diet 683 in Biological Sciences (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.4 out of 5 stars 2,730 Reviews | ## Images ![The Longevity Diet: Slow Aging, Fight Disease, Optimize Weight - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81d6cvKGPFL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Excellent & Extremely Informative *by M***E on 10 February 2018* I have been an avid follower of Professor Valter Longos’s work and studies since first seeing a BBC Documentary in 2012 - Eat, Fast & Live Longer. This man is nothing short of a genius. Having gone through my own health problems: Bulimia, then a massive benign tumour in my head which lead me to an operation and then into intensive radiation treatment I found his studies fascinating, insightful & inspiring to me personally & I wanted to know & learn more. Over the past 2 decades I have either been, bulimic, vegan, vegetarian, or now for the last 15 years pescatarian at which time I had no idea that such a name even existed. When I found out that Professor Longo had written a book on Longevity I couldn’t wait for it to be published in English. I have a Kindle copy and a book. His book has given me so much knowledge that I didn’t previously have and the information is easy enough to process if you take the trouble. For me, where his book stands out from many other books is that most of the information in this book is based on his own studies and research from throughout his 30 something years of study & research on Longevity. There are no gimmicks just straightforward facts on longevity & how to proceed with his longevity diet with the everyday fruits, vegetables, legumes etc. that we find in our supermarkets or farmers markets. He clearly explains why & which fruits, veg etc are better for you. How simple can it be to follow a mostly plant-based diet - but the truth be known for most of us is that we will continue to eat bad & fast food until the heart attack hits or our cholesterol is through the roof, or like so many people in the Western World we develop diabetes. He clearly explains how we can avoid or correct these problems by using his longevity diet. The book is entertaining as well as full of necessary, important information for living a longer & disease- free life. Prevention is always better than cure. I am a writer and in my own research I have read many, many articles with misinformed information, on many different subjects & I only want facts & proven studies as in this book. Lastly, 100% of all the royalties from Professor Longo’s books go back into his research, another great reason to purchase the book. I promise you, you will not be disappointed. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Wonderful book! *by K***E on 5 April 2020* I bought this book about 4 months ago - before the world changed as we knew it. Loved it from the start especially the story behind it, wonderful tales of the authors childhood in Italy, how the people lived and ate in his villiage and the incredible longevity of his people (all the more terribly shocking given what is happening at the moment re. Coronavirus and the toll it has taken on this great country and especially its elders). The engaging manner makes this book so different to others of its kind - this is not just a book which tells you that intermittent fasting is good for you, this goes so much deeper and the recepies Dr Valter Longo gives for this "Fast" are so delicious I find myself cooking many of them without any thought of fasting. One of my favourites is Pasta e Vaianeia. I cook this dish at least once a week , it is so satisfying and filling it gives you good energy and you feel so much better after eating this. I reccommend this to everyone to wants to start eating healthy food, never mind fasting. I did the "fast" for 2 months and when I reached my desired weight I had got so used to eating the recepies in this book i just continued using them . This is the Real way to eat. 9 months later........... This book has changed my life. I could never understand the Italian pride in their food and their cooking but I must admit I am a confirmed advocate of eating this way. Never would I have believed that a pot full of boiled veggies could taste good. Growing up in Ireland in the 1960s, our staple diet was meat, spuds and 1 veg. I hated dinner time and was a problem child when it came to eating. If only I had eaten the recipes in Dr Longo's book back then......... Between childhood and adulthood I developed an addiction to sugar, something I have been able to quit 5 years ago. These recipies are wonderful for satisfying a sweet tooth and since eating like this, sugar cravings are behind me. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ The value of not eating. From the horses mouth. *by T***D on 7 December 2025* This book is quite easily readable. The beginning to me seemed to be autobiography, which is fine and usefully informative. Then the tail end seemed to be explaining the same things again to show how fasting for five days at a go might be helpful to various conditions, with seemingly less and less evidence for the actual efficacy (difficulty getting people to run medical trials). The fast mimicking is interesting, but not really to me, as I find it far easier to stop eating than to do a load of faffing about with strange and expensive foods. There are recipe suggestions and diet suggestions for how to run a period of fast mimicking, but this was not of interest to me. I found it quite difficult on flicking through the book to identify any diet, but there is actual information in there. There is also a lot of suggestion about what to eat or not eat to generally prolong healthy life, which after all is the premise of the book. and much of that comes back to what is refered to as "Mediteranean diet" (which by now should probably be called "Mediteranean poor village diet from 50 - 100 years ago") I have been primarily trying to lose weight to remedy T2 diabetes. Fasting has proved a valuable tool in acheiving that, and I am still using periods of fasting with the 5 days suggested here, and in other places being a big player. I can do extreme, it is moderation that I find difficult. Over five days I can watch my blood sugar drop from around 6 to around 3. I have no idea what it looks like for a normal person as there seems to be a complete lack of such information on the internet or in books such as this. The book is of course plastered with the dire warnings and self protection, advising that any diet to be done under medical supervision (as though anyone in the UK can get to see a doctor, let alone a nutritionist or dietician with any idea), so - "Dont do this at home children ! " Periods of fasting can be useful and this book goes a long way to explaining how. It is well worth reading if you want to try improving your health, and most of it is based on sound research. ## Frequently Bought Together - The Longevity Diet: Slow Aging, Fight Disease, Optimize Weight - Fasting Cancer: How Fasting and Nutritechnology Are Creating a Revolution in Cancer Prevention and Treatment - At Longevity's Table: Based on the Book by Professor Valter Longo. 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