Proud Wexford man and Supe-Ager

“Don your shades, live for today, laugh out loud and mind the body”

Sage advice from Paddy Duggan, health and fitness enthusiast, agri-preneur, horticulturalist, philosopher, cyclist, enlightened and wise beyond his years with a great heart:

“I eat like our ancestors of 100 yrs ago. I have studied and researched alternative medicine among many other things and I believe that these modern diseases like heart disease and diabetes are attributable to high-sugar nutrient-deficient foods and trends.

I’ve learned so much from studies done on people who lived in the 1700’s and 1800’s who had stamina and resilience to disease due to their diet. This was mainly based on grass-fed animals, especially the liver, the kidneys and the offal which are missing from today’s diet and lots of leafy greens grown organically and locally not to mention the berries and seasonal vegetables.
Eat fats for energy, avoid sugar. Sugar feeds cancer. Take an hour for breakfast and do breakfast like a king. It’s gold. Eat your oats and swiss muesli with dried fruits, seeds like our ancestors did.

I engage in lots of mild exercise like quick-sprinting like we’re designed to do, not the full marathons that are the current trend. A twenty-minute fast walk is far more beneficial than a mini or full marathon. We are not ergonomically designed to run on concrete and hard surfaces. Some slight weight training exercise can also be beneficial for bone density. I also cycle everywhere.

I believe in resting by taking little naps regularly which are a great benefit to me still. Having worked in the catering trade all my life I have been known to do a 16-hour duty easily. I always manage to keep a good balance keeping busy and am usually to be found in great form, my friends can attest to that as I love to laugh.

Even though I’ve always smoked and still do and socialise lots also when it comes to heart disease I have keenly studied and continue to follow the French dietary paradox where they eat lots of butter, dairy foods, garlic, lots of cheese and drink copious quantities of red wine. At one time during my youth there may even have been barrels full of it in close proximity, in the Alps.

Maybe in a past life, I was a French man who was bludgeoned to death like whatsisname. These are the foods to sustain and strengthen you, to enable you to get out and fight and they give you endurance and stamina to do battle. Grow your own, raise your own seeds. Enjoy every vital minute and live it to the max.

My advice to anybody in relation to sustained fitness is to find a hill and run up it until you’re out of breath, three times a day if you can and otherwise three times a week.

Get out of the indoors and forget about the gym. Walk in your flipflops in the sunshine and enjoy the feeling of getting the vitamin D right into your bones. Vitamin D is a natural healer. Get yourself out under the liquid sunshine as it is a complete fallacy that we should all wear sunscreen.

The readily available formulas of sunscreen people use are really bad for you. It is proven to be terrible for your skin not to mention the havoc it has caused in the environment.

“I say: do not wear sunscreen!! Wear shades!!