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Here's the 700-calorie breakfast you should eat if you want to live forever, according to futurist Ray Kurzweil
2016-04-20
Google's leading futurist, Ray Kurzweil, thinks his diet can help him live forever, a goal he recently told Playboy we could be close to achieving by as early as 2029.

Kurzweil says he spends "a few thousand dollars per day" on diet pills and eating right, or roughly $1 million a year.
A fool and his money . . . .
According to Caroline Daniel of The Financial Times, Kurzweil's breakfast includes:
•Berries (85 calories for a cup)
•Dark chocolate infused with espresso (170 calories for an ounce)
•Smoked salmon and mackerel (100 calories for a 3-ounce serving)
•Vanilla soy milk (100 calories for a cup)
•Stevia (zero calories)
•Porridge (150 to 350 calories for half a cup, depending on ingredients and cooking method)
•Green tea (zero calories)

Kurzweil takes 100 pills a day (down from 250 a few years ago, reportedly thanks to advances in technology) for everything from "heart health" to "eye health, sexual health, and brain health."
At the expense of your wallet health.
As for the part of his breakfast that actually contains food, Kurzweil told Daniel it emphasizes "healthy carbs" and "fills you up with fewer calories."

That's true -- mostly.

"Healthy carbs" (as opposed to "unhealthy carbs," which include sugar and refined, heavily processed carbs like white bread) are typically from whole grains, meaning they include a hefty portion of fiber, which helps keep your digestive system running smoothly.

As for "filling you up with fewer calories," foods higher in protein and fiber are key to making sure this happens.

So back to Kurzweil's breakfast. The berries and porridge both have lots of fiber, while the smoked fish and the soy milk are good sources of protein. Thumbs-up here, Kurzweil.

The breakfast isn't without its added sugar, though.

The vanilla soy milk has 7 grams of sugar; the chocolate has another 7 grams. And even though the sugar in the berries is all-natural, they still have 15 grams. Add in a couple grams from the porridge, and Kurzweil's first meal of the day already includes over 30 grams of sugar.
So when he dies, he can blame it on the sugar.
That gets pretty close to the 37.5-gram maximum that the American Heart Association recommends men should eat each day. (The AHA recommends women limit their sugar intake to about 25 grams a day).

It sounds like Kurzweil is using the stevia, which has no calories, as a replacement for more sugar.

While it's sugar- and calorie-free, we still don't have enough research to say whether stevia (or calorie-free sugar replacements, like Splenda or Sweet-and-Low), is completely safe to eat.
It probably isn't.
Posted by:gorb

#11  Drop the soy milk and stevia, put half a bagel under the salmon, add some cream cheese and a few capers, and it sounds good to me. I'd put a dash of maple syrup on the porridge oatmeal, though.

Another good way to eat oatmeal - the scottish way - is to have a small cup of cream. Dip a spoonful of porridge in the cream.

Kruzweil's a big eater compared to me. Two eggs with cheese, bacon, coffee, no toast. On Sunday, I eat like he does. Still, he's pretty skinny. Must worry a lot.

"His other predictions, where achieved, have come 5 to 15 years later than he estimated them."

One prediction he's making is likely to go the other way in compensation.
Posted by: KBK   2016-04-20 22:51  

#10  250 pills a day? He must have rattled.
Posted by: james   2016-04-20 22:07  

#9  Where the beef?
Posted by: CrazyFool   2016-04-20 20:47  

#8  #6 He doesn't say a fucking thing about exercise?
Posted by Raj

well, beyond leaping logic and jumping to conclusions? No
Posted by: Frank G   2016-04-20 19:23  

#7  Eating all of that would be exercise.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2016-04-20 18:49  

#6  He doesn't say a fucking thing about exercise?
Posted by: Raj   2016-04-20 18:21  

#5  I'll stick to cereal and bacon, eggs and potatoes on the weekends.

I'm 43 and can still out hump (hike with a 120 lbs kit for you civies) a 24 year old that is with the water rescue division over 15 miles of mountain terrain.

Still infantry as fuck.
Posted by: DarthVader   2016-04-20 18:18  

#4  FUD in the article: "While it's sugar- and calorie-free, we still don't have enough research to say whether stevia (or calorie-free sugar replacements, like Splenda or Sweet-and-Low), is completely safe to eat."

Perfect shill for the big chemical companies' artificial sweeteners. And completely false.

It has been in use as a sweetener for decades in Japan. And the FDA has done studies and approves it as GRAS (Generally Recognized As Safe).

Then there's this: The plant Stevia rebaudiana has been used for more than 1,500 years by the Guaraní peoples of South America, who called it ka'a he'ê ("sweet herb").[10] The leaves have been used traditionally for hundreds of years in both Brazil and Paraguay to sweeten local teas and medicines, and as a "sweet treat"

(citations on Wikipedia, inclduing mutiple studies debunking the statement in the article)
Posted by: Ebbaiter Snereck5501   2016-04-20 18:12  

#3  Kurzweil was born in 1948.

He once predicted that we would have a voice activated typewriter by 1985. His other predictions, where achieved, have come5 to 15 years later than he estimated them.
Posted by: lord garth   2016-04-20 18:04  

#2  Stupid. Nobody lives forever. Trying hard to deny mortality, and avoid the inevitable accounting with your Maker.
Posted by: Neville Grundy8030   2016-04-20 18:03  

#1  If not forever, it'll sure as hell seem like forever.
Posted by: Shipman   2016-04-20 17:48  

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