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Being hungry may lead to poor decisions, focused on on short-term rewards

There is evidence that hunger increases discounting for food rewards, biasing choices towards smaller but sooner food reward over larger but later reward. Researchers found strong evidence that hunger causes large increases in delay discounting for food, with an approximately 25% spillover effect to non-food commodities. This discounting can cause negative outcomes in many non-food domains: - consumer - investment - medical - inter-personal Caution may be necessary when making decisions involving non-food outcomes while hungry. In conclusion, sleep and eat on it, before making a final decision. References: https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13423-019-01655-0 https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/world/empty-stomachs-lead-to-poor-decisions-research-says-951019.html

Fasting mimicking diet (ProLon) by Valter Longo, PhD

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Interventions that promote longevity, remembered by mnemonic: DEEP purple - “eat colorful plant foods: D ietary modification, E xercise, active E ngagement, P urposeful living (click here to enlarge the image ). Valter D. Longo (born October 9, 1967) is an Italian-American biogerontologist and cell biologist known for his studies on the role of fasting and nutrient response genes on cellular protection aging and diseases and for proposing that longevity is regulated by similar genes and mechanisms in many eukaryotes. He is currently a professor at the USC Davis School of Gerontology with a joint appointment in the department of Biological Sciences as well as serving as the director of the USC Longevity Institute. Dr Longo (PhD) is widely publsihed, he has more than 120 articles listed in PubMed as of 2019: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Longo%20VD%5BAuthor%5D&cauthor=true&cauthor_uid=31442398 Valter Longo's longevity diet proposals relies on 2 major approaches: