The common phrase is: an apple a day keeps the doctor away. That holds some truth to it, but another slightly altered version holds the truth. More apples a day keeps more doctors away. You cannot become healthy overnight and nor can you take a pill that will allow you to safely shed weight in a jiffy. Death is a culmination of factors and LIFE is the reduction and avoidance of such factors. By eating more apples (making more health-focused choices) you will literally avoid more doctors and live longer. And that is what I am setting out to do.
I will smash the current age record and I will live to be at least 150 years old. I will, without a doubt, accomplish this. People are living into their eighties on average now, and most do not eat ‘more apples’. Nowadays, most people abuse multiple substances, eat poorly, exercise rarely, have stressful lives, avoid environmental concerns, or they may even be just slightly active in any of these categories, but remember, death is the culmination of these daily choices. Unhealthy behavior in small doses does add up and eventually overwhelm us.
Deteriorating in your eighties and nineties has become the norm today. Most would consider this a long-lived life, but I would consider this a short life, and even shorter if you take into perspective the suffering endured during the final fifteen to twenty years.
You might think I am crazy, and at your present state of knowledge and awareness, you would be a true loony to think otherwise. I have come to a point in my life where giving things up such as a refrigerator is not an insanely-rooted leap of faith, but a reaction to learned circumstantial evidence. A leap of faith for you may be one where you eat less red meat or exercise daily, but these are leaps into a vogue pond of vagueness. Vague because the possibilities are never realized, potentially or in actuality. The purpose and mission of my writing is to bring you inline with my journey so that the unthought of and accrued impossibilities set rigid in stone by our ancestors can only and ultimately be contrived as choices, rather than ‘leaps of faith’. Choices made by you…
ABOUT ME
My name is Peter Filak, I am a twenty-three year old registered nurse and a health enthusiast seeking to live longer. For many years now, I have been extremely enthused with my health and how many factors affect it. Food, exercise, stress, spirituality, and the environment are the five areas that I believe hold the answers to life. With this website and blog I will share my achievements, learning experiences, step-by-step methods, and all of the personal experiments I have performed in order to fulfill this lifestyle.
FOOD
I am what I consider a healthy -raw-organic-gluten-free vegan +: I do not eat any animal products, I do not eat any processed foods, I do not cook nor blend, I do not eat any junk foods (even if it is declared vegan; AKA non-healthy vegan), I buy only organically grown foods, and my diet is gluten-free (no grains). I may eat the same things every day, but one of my meals probably has more variety in it than most get in a single day or even a week. I eat five nutrient dense meals consisting of fruit, vegetables, nuts, seeds, and roots each and every day.
As for counting calories or living by a nutritional facts label, I find this to be a tedious and highly unnecessary activity. Your body knows what it needs and will act accordingly. If you have a deficiency or an intake that exceeds the limits of your body, your body will alert you to this. With a balance that naturally replenishes the needs of your body, optimal nutritional health can be achieved.
We have become so entwined in our traditionary addictions to food that I would consider it a marriage of sorts, and nobody wants a divorce.
EXERCISE
I do light resistance exercise every other day and, additionally, I walk a few miles each morning. Exercise and physical fitness should never be grueling and injury-inducing, it should be challenging and rewarding. With such an undemanding exercise schedule, I have plenty of time to play sports and enjoy the rest of my life. As for competition, I feel it is an excellent form of motivation, but I believe having fun is more rewarding regardless of whether you win or not.
SPIRITUALITY & STRESS
I was raised to be a pew-sitting-good-friday-fasting Roman Catholic, but I do not practice any more. I hold nothing against anyone’s religion or beliefs, but I will be unraveling my own and sharing my own thoughts and humor on the subject. For me, religion is a scare tactic and a business. With that aside, I do believe that there is a greater power, whether it is a computer or of human attributes. As for stress, I believe a stress-free life is of the upmost importance.
Having patience and enjoying life for what it is, is so vital to our health and longevity. In the last five years or so, I have become extremely patient with life and open minded to new ideas and others. Not jumping the gun or getting pissed off at that senior citizen causing you to wait in line for an extra minute is so rewarding. You will feel happier, you will get sick less, and your lifestyle will flow much more smoothly. I also meditate for thirty minutes every morning and in the afternoon, and have been doing so for over six months now. Meditation provides an amazing self-awareness and it is something I look forward to when I wake in the morning. It has provided me with even more patience and even less stress in an already stress-free life.
Many of my lifestyle modifications are molded towards a less stress structure. For example, I chose to eliminate cooking from my daily agenda. I was cooking for about twelve plus hours each week and now I spend about zero minutes each week in preparing my food. A raw diet has allowed me to grab my food as needed and save me 598 hours every year, or 25 days.
EXPERIMENTS, ENVIRONMENT, & MISCELLANEOUS
My other articles are here to spark ideas and provoke a deeper thinking. I want you to be able to see things the way I see them. You may not agree with them, and that is perfectly fine, but do not shun them because of this. Be open and willing to learn. Many of my lifestyle choices have come about from personal experimentation stirred by my unwillingness to concede. In every facet of life, we are molded to perform in a specific way, and this molding begins at birth. Just because everyone is doing something and have been doing it this way “forever,” it does not deem it necessary nor healthy. For a prime example of this, you can check out how I personally debunked the deodorant myth.
The literature section of my site is my way of setting out to find many of the interconnections among diseases and disorders in order to see what the experts have to say. It is simply amazing to see how many of our world’s health problems can be solved or even eliminated with better lifestyle choices. Diseases and disorders are terrible, but they offer a glimpse into what we have been doing incorrectly and why we fail to live longer.
JOURNEY
The journey section of my site will take you through my world: meat-eater to a healthy vegan+; bulking body builder to health focused exercise; practicing pew-sitter to sleeping in on Sundays; coin-launching road rager to having a great time even if it’s in a traffic jam; and an unaware user in a product based society to an avid environmentalist. This section will be kind of like a memoir separated into three parts and spanning from my younger years ’til now.
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Ellenen
This is wonderful! I have a very similar routine, shooting for 140 – perhaps I should up the bar…
http://moreapplesaday.com Peter
150 is a just goal and likely not a stopping point, just as 140+ should be for you. Glad to hear that you are enjoying my site! Best wishes to your health and longevity.
LIVE Longer We Will!
Ellenen
Haha, we should have a competition to see who can live the longest – winner gets loser’s estate.
http://moreapplesaday.com Peter
Haha, let’s make it a healthy competition; the winner gets to live a longer, fuller, and healthier life, as evidenced by their record: Oldest Person Ever.
http://twitter.com/Homesoil Lorna Walker
I am confused by your recipe for sweet potato brownies when your bio says you don’t cook? Did I miss something?
http://moreapplesaday.com/ Peter Filak
It is true that I do not cook. All of my recipes are from when I was a ‘cooking’ vegan.
The common phrase is: an apple a day keeps the doctor away. That holds some truth to it, but another slightly altered version holds the truth. More apples a day keeps more doctors away. You cannot become healthy overnight and nor can you take a pill that will allow you to safely shed weight in a jiffy. Death is a culmination of factors and LIFE is the reduction and avoidance of such factors. By eating more apples (making more health-focused choices) you will literally avoid more doctors and live longer. And that is what I am setting out to do.
I will smash the current age record and I will live to be at least 150 years old. I will, without a doubt, accomplish this. People are living into their eighties on average now, and most do not eat ‘more apples’. Nowadays, most people abuse multiple substances, eat poorly, exercise rarely, have stressful lives, avoid environmental concerns, or they may even be just slightly active in any of these categories, but remember, death is the culmination of these daily choices. Unhealthy behavior in small doses does add up and eventually overwhelm us.
Deteriorating in your eighties and nineties has become the norm today. Most would consider this a long-lived life, but I would consider this a short life, and even shorter if you take into perspective the suffering endured during the final fifteen to twenty years.
You might think I am crazy, and at your present state of knowledge and awareness, you would be a true loony to think otherwise. I have come to a point in my life where giving things up such as a refrigerator is not an insanely-rooted leap of faith, but a reaction to learned circumstantial evidence. A leap of faith for you may be one where you eat less red meat or exercise daily, but these are leaps into a vogue pond of vagueness. Vague because the possibilities are never realized, potentially or in actuality. The purpose and mission of my writing is to bring you inline with my journey so that the unthought of and accrued impossibilities set rigid in stone by our ancestors can only and ultimately be contrived as choices, rather than ‘leaps of faith’. Choices made by you…
ABOUT ME
My name is Peter Filak, I am a twenty-three year old registered nurse and a health enthusiast seeking to live longer. For many years now, I have been extremely enthused with my health and how many factors affect it. Food, exercise, stress, spirituality, and the environment are the five areas that I believe hold the answers to life. With this website and blog I will share my achievements, learning experiences, step-by-step methods, and all of the personal experiments I have performed in order to fulfill this lifestyle.
FOOD
I am what I consider a healthy -raw-organic-gluten-free vegan +: I do not eat any animal products, I do not eat any processed foods, I do not cook nor blend, I do not eat any junk foods (even if it is declared vegan; AKA non-healthy vegan), I buy only organically grown foods, and my diet is gluten-free (no grains). I may eat the same things every day, but one of my meals probably has more variety in it than most get in a single day or even a week. I eat five nutrient dense meals consisting of fruit, vegetables, nuts, seeds, and roots each and every day.
As for counting calories or living by a nutritional facts label, I find this to be a tedious and highly unnecessary activity. Your body knows what it needs and will act accordingly. If you have a deficiency or an intake that exceeds the limits of your body, your body will alert you to this. With a balance that naturally replenishes the needs of your body, optimal nutritional health can be achieved.
We have become so entwined in our traditionary addictions to food that I would consider it a marriage of sorts, and nobody wants a divorce.
EXERCISE
I do light resistance exercise every other day and, additionally, I walk a few miles each morning. Exercise and physical fitness should never be grueling and injury-inducing, it should be challenging and rewarding. With such an undemanding exercise schedule, I have plenty of time to play sports and enjoy the rest of my life. As for competition, I feel it is an excellent form of motivation, but I believe having fun is more rewarding regardless of whether you win or not.
SPIRITUALITY & STRESS
I was raised to be a pew-sitting-good-friday-fasting Roman Catholic, but I do not practice any more. I hold nothing against anyone’s religion or beliefs, but I will be unraveling my own and sharing my own thoughts and humor on the subject. For me, religion is a scare tactic and a business. With that aside, I do believe that there is a greater power, whether it is a computer or of human attributes. As for stress, I believe a stress-free life is of the upmost importance.
Having patience and enjoying life for what it is, is so vital to our health and longevity. In the last five years or so, I have become extremely patient with life and open minded to new ideas and others. Not jumping the gun or getting pissed off at that senior citizen causing you to wait in line for an extra minute is so rewarding. You will feel happier, you will get sick less, and your lifestyle will flow much more smoothly. I also meditate for thirty minutes every morning and in the afternoon, and have been doing so for over six months now. Meditation provides an amazing self-awareness and it is something I look forward to when I wake in the morning. It has provided me with even more patience and even less stress in an already stress-free life.
Many of my lifestyle modifications are molded towards a less stress structure. For example, I chose to eliminate cooking from my daily agenda. I was cooking for about twelve plus hours each week and now I spend about zero minutes each week in preparing my food. A raw diet has allowed me to grab my food as needed and save me 598 hours every year, or 25 days.
EXPERIMENTS, ENVIRONMENT, & MISCELLANEOUS
My other articles are here to spark ideas and provoke a deeper thinking. I want you to be able to see things the way I see them. You may not agree with them, and that is perfectly fine, but do not shun them because of this. Be open and willing to learn. Many of my lifestyle choices have come about from personal experimentation stirred by my unwillingness to concede. In every facet of life, we are molded to perform in a specific way, and this molding begins at birth. Just because everyone is doing something and have been doing it this way “forever,” it does not deem it necessary nor healthy. For a prime example of this, you can check out how I personally debunked the deodorant myth.
The literature section of my site is my way of setting out to find many of the interconnections among diseases and disorders in order to see what the experts have to say. It is simply amazing to see how many of our world’s health problems can be solved or even eliminated with better lifestyle choices. Diseases and disorders are terrible, but they offer a glimpse into what we have been doing incorrectly and why we fail to live longer.
JOURNEY
The journey section of my site will take you through my world: meat-eater to a healthy vegan+; bulking body builder to health focused exercise; practicing pew-sitter to sleeping in on Sundays; coin-launching road rager to having a great time even if it’s in a traffic jam; and an unaware user in a product based society to an avid environmentalist. This section will be kind of like a memoir separated into three parts and spanning from my younger years ’til now.
Will you join?
Don’t forget to sign up for updates via Email and to follow me on Facebook and Twitter.