THE ANCHOR-INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION SHERMAN PROGRAM

Anchor-International Foundation is about to start a limited, yearlong experiment, beginning with three people, to test the efficacy of "Acting Well to Age Well" as an anti-aging technique.

Beth Mandelbaum, who is affiliated with WEME Mainstream Nutrition and Health Center has expressed interest in sharing access to some of the names of "aging" individuals who live alone in Manhattan and could possibly lose their rent-controlled apartments and have to relocate in a home for the aged because they can no longer shop or cook for themselves.

Our foundation will supply free food and companionship (for at least a year, and lifelong if the experiment really works) on a daily basis to these individuals.

The foundation has hired Idalah Luria as of August 1, 2008 to organize the project. (Idalah has previously worked for a Meals-on-Wheels organization in Connecticut.) She will become the first "companion."

The "companions" will be drawn from volunteers who are at least 30 pounds overweight (that is, who suffer from -- and are unhappy about -- an eating disorder) and have no families to care for. Eventually, the foundation may start an Overeaters Anonymous group to train potential volunteer companions and to be located, for example, at Middle Collegiate Church -- if it chooses to participate in the program.

Two (and perhaps eventually four) companions will be assigned to each elderly person. Our foundation will pay for an accurate scale and a well-constructed exercise bicycle to be installed in an extra bedroom (or some place in the elderly person's apartment that can assure privacy while exercising, weighing before and after exercise, and showering).

The companions will share all food costs associated with the experiment.

The first companion will arrive early for dinner and exercise while the second prepares the dinner for all three persons. The second companion will exercise after dinner while the first does the dishes. The elderly person will also exercise ad lib.

If four companions serve the same elderly person, the dinner pair would probably be female, while the second (male) pair would "do lunch."

Once a week, our foundation will invite (and pay for) all participants to meet at a local restaurant where anyone can eat anything available without compromising anyone's daily "diet."

All participants will sign up with the Strang Clinic Cancer Prevention Program, headed by Dr. Richard Rivlin, and become his patients for the purpose of monitoring for an eventual scientific paper to be published.

Since obesity and cancer are two of the seven "aging disorders" that "Acting Well to Age Well" addresses, the experiment's success will be measured in number of pounds lost, as well as (eventually) freedom from contracting certain forms of cancer.

According to our hypotheses to be tested, and based on the foundation's earlier experiments, if companion participants are as much as 52 pounds overweight, each will lose all 52 pounds at the precise rate of one pound per week in exactly one year, permanently, without willpower, hunger, or encountering a plateau.

Also, according to our hypotheses, each participant will not die from atherosclerosis, cancer, immunological disorders, diabetes, obesity, hypertension, or Alzheimer's disease, which are the seven "aging diseases" that "Acting Well to Age Well" allegedly prevents.

Read about DEORM, the scientific protocol being tested by the Sherman Program.