And boost your brain health Photo by Alex Motoc on Unsplash The choices you make at the grocery store can have an impact on the inflammation in your body. Scientists are still unravelling how food affects our inflammatory processes, but they know a few things.
In simple terms, sugary high-processed foods help release inflammatory messengers that can raise the risk of chronic inflammation. Other foods like fruits and veggies help your body fight against oxidative stress, which can trigger inflammation. Add walnuts to your shopping list - they fight inflammation and have other desirable side-effects such as helping us sleep better. Here's how the top vegetables stack up Photo by Anna Kaminova on Unsplash 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?  Photo by Yurii Fadeev on Unsplash 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 If you eat farmed fish now then you've nothing to lose Photo by Vineeth Vinod on Unsplash 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. 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. If cutting them out is impractical, try this alternative Photo by Anton Eprev on Unsplash The association between Ultra Processed Foods (UPF) and poor health outcomes is well established, even if the mechanisms are not. A recent global study identified the principal components of UPFs that are most negatively associated with those health consequences.
If we know what those components are, then we can take steps at an individual level to improve the quality of our diet. There were two clear answers which we can use to inform our choices. How you peel it makes a difference! Photo by Tetiana SHYSHKINA on Unsplash Avocados might be the last thing you would consider would help you lose weight, but you'd be wrong. Not only can they help you lose weight, but they also improve your heart and brain and eyes, and can rejuvenate your skin.
And their effects are even more beneficial if you are older. When we're older, we need more metabolic repairs done inside and out - and avocados are the perfect food to help. I eat a half-avocado every day. I lace it with other goodies such as turmeric, ginger and apple cider vinegar. But putting those aside, whatever you do with avocado - chop it, slice it, mash it, mix it - it has an astounding range of nutritional benefits, including: If you are over 50 now's the time to make these changes Photo by Louis Hansel @shotsoflouis on Unsplash 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.
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.  Photo by Marco Secchi on Unsplash Including helping maintain healthy blood pressureHigh blood pressure is a leading cause of cardiovascular disease in developed countries. Yet some countries, such as Italy and Japan, have low rates of high blood pressure and lower mortality rates due to CVD.
That's not because they all go to the gym 5 times a week or due CrossFit. The reason is far less complicated and available to everyone. They eat more fruit and vegetables, and in particular more nitrate-rich vegetables.  Photo by Bradley Howington on Unsplash 50-percent of the health benefits are from the skinIn the Western world, citrus peels are mostly just byproducts of juicing and treated as waste. That's a pity, as they contain many phenolic compounds which are proven to be beneficial to our Western lifestyle and diet-induced diseases.
By consuming the whole citrus fruit, we gain far more health benefits than by just eating the flesh. There are more health benefits from compounds in the skin and membranes than from just those in the flesh. The compounds in the non-flesh parts of oranges are so powerful that in some parts of the world they are used as traditional medicine to cure fungal and bacterial infections, human colon and breast cancer by alternative therapists.  Photo by Emile Guillemot on Unsplash The wrong cooking methods destroy 80% of food's antioxidant health benefitsPolyphenols are micronutrients that are readily available in everyday food.
They're packed with antioxidants - as long as you don't destroy these antioxidants by cooking the wrong way and ruin their health benefits. For example, boiling some polyphenol-rich foods destroys 80% of their polyphenol content. But it is this antioxidant content which helps protect us against chronic disease. In this article, I'll guide you through how to preserve the most benefit from polyphenol "superfoods" like tomatoes. TL;DR slip a steam oven under your microwave and enjoy the best of both. |
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