Eat less, live longer: the diet that holds the key to staying young

FULL STORY by Helena de Bertodano: The TIMES…..

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When Valter Longo was five years old he watched his grandfather Alfonso, who was in his late sixties, die a slow death. On the day he passed away, Valter vividly remembers all his Italian relatives calling out his grandfather’s name, trying to wake him up — but Longo intuitively knew he was dead: “I said, ‘Can’t you see that he has died?’ I was like a doctor — very rational in that moment. It was an introduction to death that most five-year-olds do not have: I started viewing life as temporary.”

Longo, who grew up in Genoa, was painfully aware that he missed his grandfather and wanted to stop people dying for as long as possible. From that day he decided that he needed to…