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These Salad Vegetables Boost Our Immune Function

4/11/2020

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Here's how the top vegetables stack up

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Vegetables are essential for well-balanced diets for their high load of vitamins, minerals, dietary fibre, and phytochemicals.

Right now, with the pandemic still active, salad vegetables play a more vital role than ever in our diet because of their capacity to improve our immune defences. 

They're also convenient since we can eat them as raw, so they present little challenge in preparing for our everyday meals. For example, a cold dish of various raw vegetables, seasoned with oil, vinegar or other dressings, can be quickly prepared.

Just how vital are salad vegetables in our diet to overcome viral infections?

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After Running 1550km I Retired My Saucony's, Reluctantly

20/10/2020

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My feet told me that they'd had enough

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1550km - My Saucony Freedom ISO's have to be retired | Image Credit: The Author
I have zero brand allegiance. I buy when a quality item is on special, including running shoes, irrespective of brand. But from the moment that I stood up in my Saucony Freedom ISO shoes (Black 8.0D) I knew that I could be a fanboy.

Just two years before, almost to the day, I hated running. You know, when you do a "power hour" and the instructor lines you up at the finish for the fireman's shuttle run. Hated it. Even just lining up for sprints across the room - not happy.

I could do it well. It was rare if I was not in a leading group. But I just wanted it to finish.
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The gym went on a summer roster over Xmas (down under in Australia). Although classes were peripheral to how I trained at the gym, I liked to do one class each week for variety. I tried boxing classes and found them a waste of time. As there was nothing in the Xmas program that interested me, I decided to run, twice a week.

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Too Much Omega-6 Can Harm Us, Unless We Eat More Omega-3

15/10/2020

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Get the balance right, and live longer better

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​The benefits of omega-3 fats from fatty fish and likely from plant sources like flaxseeds and walnuts are well known. After all, the media frequently talk about the benefits of omega-3 fatty acids in fish oil, and sales of fish oil supplements are more than $1 billion per year in the United States.

Omega-3 is a polyunsaturated fatty acid, and our only source is from food. Omega-6 is omega-3's cousin, also derived from the food we eat. 

The only difference between omega-3 fatty acids and omega-6 fatty acids is in the structure of their molecules. Both are essential. Our body cannot produce them, so we need to obtain them from our diet.​

It is not a matter of one of them being "better" than the other. We need both, and generally, we all need to eat more of them, as long as we don't get the ratio out of balance.

An imbalance in our omega-3 to omega-6 ratio is associated with adverse health outcomes, potentially negating the overall benefits. For example, a high dietary intake of omega-6 induces a proinflammatory response (raising the level of chronic inflammation) whereas omega-3 has anti-inflammatory properties.

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How To Boost Your Circadian Rhythm And Live Longer

14/10/2020

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Exercise and healthy food count but there's an unexpected twist

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Scientists are increasingly discovering that the changes in the circadian rhythm as we age are associated with reduced longevity.

Normal, healthy aging is associated with a weakening of the circadian system. The first indication of damping of circadian rhythms with advancing age came from studies by Franz Halberg in the 1950s, on mice. We now know that circadian rhythm plays a vital role in health, and prolonged clock disruptions are associated with chronic diseases.

​Knowing how to boost strengthen the circadian rhythm may yet turn out to be as important as strengthening our muscles, for longer life.

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I Ditched My Commercial Protein Shake For A Nutritionally-dense Eggnog

12/10/2020

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Until now, the taste of raw eggs made me sick

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When younger, even the thought of raw egg would start my stomach churning. I couldn't comprehend how awful an eggnog must taste.

This month I replaced my usual morning proprietary protein share with - an eggnog! I couldn't believe how innocuous it tastes, and my nog is jam packed with protein.

Until this month, I was using a proprietary protein shake with 36g of protein per serving, at a cost of $68 for 14 serves - about $5 per serve. It was a quality product, but in these times it pays to preserve cashflow even it means sacrificing some quality.

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Brain Health Is Boosted By Eating Less, Often - Here's How To Start

25/9/2020

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Five ways to kick-start fasting to improve your cognitive fitness

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It's daunting to contemplate how to get started with intermittent fasting. It has become synonymous with keto and faddish diets and has elements of a cult - which turns people off. That's unfortunate because intermittent fasting can keep our brain functioning better for longer.

Here's how to get started, without having to "go keto" or remove yourself from family dinners.

The reluctance to make fasting part of our lifestyle is not helped by the fact that until this year (2020), intermittent fasting was yet to be assessed in a rigorous clinical trial. The publication of a small "rigorous clinical trial" - just 58 subjects - reported "weight loss and improved cardiometabolic measures".
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Intermittent fasting (IF) diets fall generally into two categories: daily time-restricted feeding, which narrows eating times to 6-8 hours per day, and so-called 5:2 intermittent fasting, in which people limit themselves to one moderate-sized meal two days each week.

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Newsletter: Cleveland Clinic Says Breakfast With Light Therapy Will Lift Your Daily Mood And Make You Happier

20/9/2020

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Plus, Grandma was right - eat your beets. They strengthen our lungs and keep Covid at bay

[Copy of my weekly newsletter] ​Simple light therapy helps maintain our hormonal balance, says Cleveland Clinic. Recent research found that beetroot is better for us then even Grandma said! Can you imagine eating lab-grown sushi - some call it FrankenFish - what do you think, read on. And there's a lying exercise with a towel that will strengthen your whole body, you can do every morning easily. #staysafe #keepmoving #stayhealthy

Here are my 4 Most Valuable pieces of content from around the web, to help you live longer better:

⭑ Serving breakfast with a side of light therapy will put you in a better mood
⭑ The humble beetroot deserves more credit
⭑ FrankenFish may be healthier than farmed fish!
⭑ How to extend your core and strengthen your back and shoulders

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Lab-grown FrankenFish Sashimi Is Nearly Ready For The Table - Will You Eat It?

17/9/2020

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If you eat farmed fish now then you've nothing to lose

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In a mere five years, lab-grown salmon will be on the sushi conveyer-belt, at least if a number of startups have their way. Well, they will have their way. Like the coronavirus vaccine, it is only a matter of time.

In fact, Finless Foods was hoping to bring its cell-based bluefin tuna to market by the end of 2019. Although it hasn't entirely made it, it is very close and has served small select audiences its early production lab-grown shrimp.
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WildType, a startup making lab-grown salmon, has opened up a pre-order list for select chefs. Although the company is as much as five years out from commercial production, according to founders the company is looking to partner with chefs who want to incorporate WildType's sushi-grade salmon product into their menus.

Could these lab-based meal creations be better for us than the real thing, and would you eat it? You might be surprised.

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The Best Food To Help You Sleep Better And Break The COVID Stress Cycle

19/8/2020

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Nutritional timing and choice for a good night's sleep

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In this time of the pandemic increased stress levels are interfering with the quality of our sleep. Poor sleep often leads to a poor day, and we enter a cycle of stress which is hard to break.

​A good diet can go a long way to restoring better sleep and breaking the COVID stress cycle.

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Five Better Food Choices I Should Have Made Before I Developed Diabetes

22/7/2020

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If you are over 50 now's the time to make these changes

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We're swamped with nutritional information, but we rarely take action to improve our diets. Healthier eating matters at any age but it matters more as we age. Better choices will help us live longer better.
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If you are over 50, now's the time to make those choices. When I was 50 I was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes. I had left my healthy choices too late, but since then, I've been learning every day. Here's what I know that will help you.

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    Since I was diagnosed at 50 with Type 2 diabetes I've been learning how to do bone-building fitness training which lowers my age. You can too. It's your choice. Walter


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