The Corvallis Seventh-day Adventist Church will be hosting an anti-aging nutrition and longevity event from 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. this Saturday.
Admission is free, and no reservations are required. The seminar will take place at the church, located at 3160 SW Western Blvd.
John Westerdahl, a California-based “lifestyle medicine and anti-aging nutrition expert,” will be speaking at the event.
During the seminar, Westerdahl will discuss various theories of aging, anti-aging “superfoods” and optimal dietary patterns for healthy aging.
According to Westerdahl’s website, as a nutritionist and health educator, he has devoted his life to “teaching people how to achieve optimal health and longevity through a healthy plant-based vegetarian diet.”
Westerdahl’s website goes on to argue that a diet consisting of whole food, vegetables and other plant-based foods “is powerful medicine in preventing, effectively treating and even reversing many of the diseases we face today.”
The seminar will also explore the diets and lifestyles of people living in “Blue Zones,” a term coined by National Geographic Fellow Dan Buettner, according to the Blue Zones website.
In a 2004 exploratory project, Buettner identified five regions around the world with unusually high concentrations of centenarians — individuals who live to the age of 100 or older: Okinawa, Japan; Sardinia, Italy; the Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica; Icaria, Greece; and the Seventh-day Adventist community in Loma Linda, California.
The event flyer invites attendees to “Discover the Secrets of the World’s Healthiest and Longest Living People!” and to “discover how to live and look younger, longer through diet and nutrition.”
While Blue Zones have often been promoted as modern-day fountains of youth, they are somewhat controversial in the scientific community, with recent research from London, England questioning the accuracy and methodology behind the longevity data associated with the regions.
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