{"id":23,"date":"2025-02-07T09:51:12","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T09:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nobiscuits.com\/blog\/?p=23"},"modified":"2025-02-16T16:09:30","modified_gmt":"2025-02-16T16:09:30","slug":"what-is-no-biscuits-all-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nobiscuits.com\/blog\/what-is-no-biscuits-all-about\/","title":{"rendered":"What is No Biscuits all about?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>At No Biscuits, we are pretty clear about what we are doing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s more of a question to you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How far do you, or could you, look and plan ahead?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A month, a year or five years? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are asking you to stretch that by maybe decades, especially if you are in the &#8220;first half of the game&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If the current average life span is 80 years, and we allow 80 years to be equal to 80 minutes, and 80 minutes is two halves of a sporting game, then if you are under 40 &#8211; you are still in the first half of the game. You could still be able to burn energy, run around at speed and have a low risk of injury. But in the second half, the underlying fitness and training level will inevitably show itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So the question is &#8211; how far can you look ahead?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It could be good news if you make it to 80, quantitively it might sound ok? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But at No Biscuits, we want to focus on life quality <strong>and<\/strong> health span, much more so than just life span. Get the health span right and life span should look after itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the USA, lifespan, although now unbelievably in decline, currently averages out overall at about 79 years, but here comes the real shocker, the true shocker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The average <strong>health span<\/strong> in the US, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Xw67TKVpsCg&amp;ab_channel=RichRoll\">Peter Diamantis<\/a> is 63. I suppose that this statement is supported by the fact that around 88% of the US population as defined by the World Health Organisation has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.emro.who.int\/images\/stories\/emhj\/documents\/in_press\/table_1_criteria_for_diagnosis_of_metabolic_syndrome_by_diagnostic_guideline.pdf\">metabolic syndrome<\/a>, so is essentially suffering with some form of medical issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And this is further reinforced by a US doctor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@drzagefit\/video\/7272921580462755115?q=dr%20karl%20zarse&amp;t=1706269860198\">Karl Zarse in this clip<\/a>, who states that the wistful comments that he hears very often from his patients are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I can&#8217;t believe how long this illness has been lasting, 5, 10, 15, 20 years.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I wish I had done something about it earlier&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now the absence of time travel prevents us from testing how it feels to be sick in the future, for years and years, as health declines toward a debilitating and slow demise. But <strong>IF<\/strong> we can learn something from this, it brings us to the main point of No Biscuits and the mission statement that we have chosen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So here it is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u201cNarrowing the gap between health span and life span, while increasing both\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It does summarise what maybe most people, including myself, had not realised.  When you are in a long term mode of repeat behaviour, and you feel no immediate consequence of that negative behaviour, the habit holds you in that rhythm until something causes you to change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And this returns us to the other motto of No Biscuits:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Change your life, before life changes you&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Find your motivation, build a project, think long term, start the journey, make little, simple, daily changes and see what happens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At No Biscuits, we are pretty clear about what we are doing. 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