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Eat this not that after age 60
Eat This, Not That after Age 60
The Best Foods for Muscle, Energy and Bone Health
After age 60, eating well is no longer simply about maintaining your weight. It is about preserving your strength, protecting your bones and having the energy to keep doing the things you love.
Your nutritional needs change as you grow older. In fact, the older you are, the more important it is to eat quality food. Unless you eat well you are at risk of muscle loss and higher risk of illness from lack of quality nutrients. The good news?
summer glory
Fresh from the garden to your table. Beans are one of the simplest vegetables to grow. Right now I have an abundance of both green and yellow beans, which makes for a colorful summer salad.
Mix together ½ pound each of green and yellow beans. Wash thoroughly, and clip the ends off, cutting them in half. Prepare a pot of lightly salted boiling water and blanch the beans for 3 to 5 minutes until tender and still a little crisp. When done, drop into a colander of ice cubes to stop the cooking.
Slice either a red or Visalia onion and slowly caramelize in a buttery saute pan until tender.
Slice one dozen cherry tomatoes in half.
Create a dressing: 3 T. extra virgin olive oil, 1 T. red wine vinegar, a pinch of salt and ground pepper, a squeeze of lemon.
Combine all ingredients in a large bowl; fold in the dressing.
Vibrant food, vibrant living.
Summer wellness tips
Summer has a way of encouraging us to slow down and savor life's simple pleasures—longer days, fresh produce, backyard gatherings, and time spent outdoors with family and friends. It's also a wonderful time to give our bodies the nourishment they need to support lifelong wellness.
Longevity Action Plan
Optimize your lifespan and, more importantly, your healthspan.
There are 4 key elements I feature in my latest program. You will find specific suggestions in each category. In the end you will learn what I consider to be the most significant of all actions you can take to enhance your Healthspan and make life worth living.
Gut Brain Axis and a Peaceful World
Reducing inflammation in your brain may just be the answer to world peace.
Does Food Matter to You?
All through history humans have evolved. Food was once regarded only as a means of survival; as society developed, we learned it could be a source of pleasure, and an experience shared in community. We risk losing that now.
Celebrate your joyful old dames
For the Friend Who’s Aging Like Fine Wine
Let’s be honest: We aren’t getting older; we’re just getting more fabulous, more free, and a heck of a lot funnier.
This holiday season, skip the bath salts and give the gift of pure attitude. Skinny Joyful Old Dame is the ultimate tribute to the women who know that the best years aren't behind us—they’re right now.
Order for your gals: book club, bridge club, tennis club, etc.
Lower Blood sugar in 10 minutes
Here are two reasons not to linger at the table after dinner:
#1. if you have leftovers sitting on the table, it is very tempting to take second helpings. Even though you aren’t hungry, the aroma and sight of them mayget you to eat more.
#2. This is really important. When you eat a meal, your blood sugar rises. The best thing you can do is get up and move. It will cause your insulin to secrete and send that sugar (glucose) in your blood up into your muscles for energy. That is the natural process for effectively using the glucose from your meal.
Use your food wisely. Eat enough and send it up to your muscles for increased energy.
Longevity Blueprint
The Longevity Ledger: Vitality Needs by Decades
Your guide to nutrition, movement, and vitality from 50 to 90+
What Is Your Relationship with Food?
Sooner or later, but mostly in adolescence, you may have started comparing your body to others. You made those comparisons and for most of us who judged ourselves harshly, you came up short on the comparison end. This became reinforced by the media’s way of suggesting we’d be happier, more good looking and shapelier if we just counted our calories and looked like some celebrity or the prettiest or most handsome kid in the classroom.
Eat Food, Not Additives
With kids going back to school and parents needing to fill their lunch boxes, cross these items off your list and scroll to the bottom to find some healthy suggestions from me:
A Guide to Healthy Eating for Lifelong Wellness
Food Becomes You can help you with that goal of a living a long and healthy life. Think of developing a healthy way of eating early in life as your personal health retirement plan. The earlier you adapt healthy habits, the greater the chance you will avoid the diseases of aging. After all, these diseases are all preventable.