Is it time to reframe our thoughts about aging and happiness?
Some people live under a rock confined to their own thoughts ..
Not able to free think on their own!!!
As long as humans have been alive, we’ve been interested in how to potentially
extend the experience.
For many years, increasing your lifespan was the provenance of speculation and science fiction. But recently, actual science has determined that making certain changes to your routine can demonstrably extend your life by years. Here’s the latest on the #1 way to lengthen your life, according to science. Read on to find out more—and to ensure your health and the health of others, don’t miss these Sure Signs You’ve Already Had COVID.
A new study has found that you can extend your life up to 13 years by eating the right diet.
In research published this month in the journal PLOS Medicine, scientists calculated how much longer a person might live if they replaced the “typical Western diet” — one that’s heavy in processed foods and red meat — with an “optimized diet” that involved no red or processed meat or sugar-sweetened beverages, reduced dairy and egg consumption, and more fruits, vegetables, legumes, whole grains and nuts. The researchers found that if a man started eating the optimized diet at age 20, he could add 13 years to his life.
a woman who did the same could lengthen her life by a decade.
And it’s never too late: Men and women who started the healthier diet at age 60 could lengthen their lives by nine and eight years, respectively. Even 80-year-old people could add about 3.5 years to their lives by adopting a plant-based diet.
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1. Could Reduce Heart Disease, Diabetes, Cancer.
“The estimated life extension is mainly due to a reduction in the risk of heart disease, diabetes and cancer,” says the study’s author, Lars Fadnes of the University of Bergen in Norway. “The notion that improving diet quality would reduce the risk of chronic disease and premature death is long established, and it only stands to reason that less chronic disease and premature death means more life expectancy,” Dr. David Katz, a specialist
in preventive and lifestyle medicine and nutrition, told CNN.
The team also looked at a “feasibility” diet, a sort of compromise between the typical Western diet and the optimized diet. Twenty-year-old men and women would live
seven and six years longer on the feasibility diet, respectively, while 80-year-old men
and women would add about 1.5 years to their lives.
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2. Cut That Sugar
Added sugar is the number one factor in your risk of dying from diabetes.
The link between increased sugar and diabetes risk is right up there with “smoking causes lung cancer” on the list of immutable medical truths— despite what soda manufacturers are trying to tell us. (You’ll read more about sugar-based hocus-pocus in the next chapter.) But researchers at the Mayo Clinic have come right out and said that added fructose—either as a constituent of table sugar or as the main component of high-fructose corn syrup—may be the number one cause of diabetes, and that cutting sugar alone could translate into a reduced number of diabetes deaths the world over.
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3. Exercise Also A Life-Extender
That study joins other research published recently about an easy switch that could
extend life: Getting just 10 minutes of daily exercise. A study published in JAMA Internal Medicine found that people over 40 who add only that amount of activity to their everyday routines could live longer.
“We know exercise is good for us. This study provides additional evidence of the
benefits at the population level: if all adults in the United States (over age 40) were to exercise just a bit more each day, a large number of deaths could be prevented each year,” epidemiologist Pedro Saint-Maurice, the study’s lead author, told CNN.
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4. Add 10 Minutes of Activity to Each Day
“We have reported previously that even a little bit of exercise can result in health benefits,” Saint-Maurice said. “We can make our nation healthier by encouraging everyone to add an additional 10 minutes of activity or more each day.” And to live your healthiest life, don’t miss this life-saving advice I’m a Doctor and Here’s the #1 Sign You Have Cancer.
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5. Feel Good Music is Soothing
Shake it off: The ultimate Taylor Swift playlist:
Since her self-titled debut album was released in 2006, Taylor Swift has transformed into one of the world’s biggest pop stars, if not the world’s biggest pop star. A true crossover success who got her start in country music and just received the American Music Awards’ Artist of the Decade honor, Swift is so much more than just a pop princess.
Known for pairing self-penned poignant lyrics with ridiculously catchy melodies,
it’s safe to say that Swift has influenced the world of pop music in a truly profound way. Whether you’re a committed Swiftie or new to her catalog, these 22 songs offer an excellent snapshot at how Swift’s sound has changed throughout the years.
The Ultimate Taylor Swift playlist.
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The story of the Annie Moses Band began in a cotton field in North Texas during the Great Depression. Annie Moses, our great grandmother, picked cotton for a wealthy landowner and scrimped and saved to pay for a few piano lessons for our grandmother, Jane.
Jane learned from her mother’s sacrifice. Years later, she pinched pennies so our mother, Robin, could learn piano, a pursuit that took her to Oklahoma City University. There she met our father, Bill, a jazz man who loved chord progressions and arranging. Together they wrote a steady stream of extraordinary songs, including the Sandi Patti hit,
“Make His Praise Glorious.”
While Sandi was singing the words of the Psalmist (“praise the Lord with strings!”),
we were putting those words into practice – literally. Growing up, our parents worked hard to give us the best musical education possible. It was a trajectory that took us all
the way to the Juilliard School.
In 2002, our family came to a crossroads – do we stay on the classical path
or take a risk and make our own music?
The answer was the Annie Moses Band, an eclectic sound that reflected our family’s unique blend of roots music and classical polish. Over 15 years later, the Annie Moses Band has recorded more than a dozen albums, produced Telly-nominated PBS specials, traveled to Europe and Asia, and performed on stages as diverse as Carnegie Hall and
the Grand Ole Opry.
But the journey didn’t stop with our own music. In 2010 we founded a non-profit,
Annie Moses Foundation, which nurtures the artistic development of families.
The Annie Moses Foundation supports our local Conservatory, our online music curricula, and our annual Summer Music Festival here in Music City. Pouring our talents into the lives of young musicians is deeply fulfilling. Our vision is to see a new generation of faith-filled artists who can fill every art form with truth, beauty, and goodness.
It’s been an exciting journey so far, and the legacy of Annie Moses continues!
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Science Says Start Seeing ‘The Future You’ in the Right Way
By Jeff Haden
Want to Be Happier, Healthier, and Wealthier?
The more connection you feel between who you are now and who you will be,
the greater your later life satisfaction and well-being.
Imagine yourself 10 or 20 years in the future. Not physically–because 40-year-old me would not have been happy with 60-year-old me–but in terms of who you are inside.
How you answer that question tends to put you in one of two basic camps.
Some people see themselves as basically the same:
Where you live might change, your profession might change, your circumstances might change, but deep inside you see yourself as roughly the same. As social psychologists
put it, you assume a strong continuity between today you and 20-years-from-now you.
Others see their future selves as very different from who they are today.
They see little connection or continuity.
They assume–or at least hope–that someday they will become very different.
My guess is you see where this is going:
People who think their future self will be very different tend to be less “responsible”
in terms of behavior. Research bears out that assumption.
One study shows people with greater “present-future continuity” tend to exercise more.
Other shows show people tend to be more financially prudent and more likely to save money.
Other shows show those people tend to behave more ethically, both personally and professionally.
Other shows show the degree of continuity you feel with your future self can actually predict your overall life satisfaction and well-being 10 years later.
As the researchers write:
When people are better connected to their future selves, they have an enhanced ability
to recognize the consequences of their present-day decisions on their future selves.
And that’s going to help them put the brakes on these behaviors.
Intuitively that makes sense. When I was young, I thought my future self would
somehow be different: That he would decide to get fit. Or save for retirement.
Or just quit acting like such a doofus.
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Who I was then and who I would someday be? Big disconnect.
Slowly, though, I realized that what I did today built the foundation for what I would become. That who I would be in 10 or 20 years would be the accumulation of the actions
I would take in the years to come.
That someday being fit, relatively financially secure, or a lot less of a jerk–
who I would be would result from the choices I made on a daily basis?
Choices that would either work for or against my hopes for the future me.
Because consistency, not intensity, is what produces long-term results.
Want to someday be a successful entrepreneur? You won’t get there by assuming
that someday you’ll magically be different. What you do now–gaining skills, forging connections, analyzing opportunities, etc.–will accumulate over time, and help you get there.
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Want to lose weight? The choices you make now–improving your diet, exercising more, etc.–will accumulate over time and help you get there. If you hope your future self will
be smarter, or kinder, or wealthier, or more generous, or more successful–whatever you imagine your future self to be–see that person not as a stranger, but as fundamentally
the person you are today.
Except different, due to the choices you make today.
And every day.
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COOKING WITH A PURPOSE
Imagine an ancient Chinese philosopher, with his depth of knowledge of how nature and food work and their impact on humans and the planet, in the kitchen with your Italian Nonna, with all her wisdom of nature, food and nurturing. Imagine them cooking and talking together, laughing and comparing notes on food and wellness. That’s how I cook and live my life. It’s like having two little angels on my shoulders, working together creating the soul of cooking, eating and wellness.
I love my way of thinking about food.
It takes the best of both worlds (along with my scientific nutrition facts and stats),
and boils them down to their essential tenets and allows us to enjoy the best of both philosophies. Lusciously esoteric but grounded in the sexy, delicious cooking style
known as the Mediterranean diet, with a dusting of science from conventional nutrition.
It becomes a winning combination allowing us to understand how food affects us so we can cook deliciously, creating the wellness we want. With dishes like Skillet Pasta e Fagioli, Black Rice Salad with Roasted Cherry Tomatoes, Vegan Bouillabaisse, and Pink Prosecco Cake, The Macroterranean Way is a luscious way to eat your way to wellness.
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Christina Pirello’s culinary zeal goes back to her Irish-Italian family in New Jersey where cooking was the center of home life. Her mother was ahead of her time: into the freshest ingredients, recycling, and alternative health.
Christina’s first food job was at a coffee shop at the hotel restaurant where her dad worked as a butcher. She was reprimanded for spilling coffee on a customer, but couldn’t be fired because of her dad, so they demoted her to scrubbing vegetables for three months.
Christina wanted to learn to be a chef, but this was a time when women were not given the same opportunities in the culinary industry as men. When she didn’t quit, the chef tried to deter her with three months of taking the innards out of chickens.
Christina had already rebelled by going vegetarian at age fourteen.
“My father unconsciously set my feet on the path towards veganism. He had the chance to work in a slaughterhouse and couldn’t do it; he could not kill innocent animals—his words that I will never forget. His vulnerability sealed the deal for me, and I was done with meat. I will always be grateful to him for that.”
The chicken job disgusted her; she persevered. Eventually her determination impressed the boss so much that he taught her everything from making sauces to baking. But by then Christina didn’t want a food career; she was into eating processed junk food and decided University of Miami was the place for her to earn her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in fine arts. Her artistic interest is evident in everything from her Italian espresso cup collection to the eccentric paintings that adorn the walls of the Pirellos’ quaint Philly rowhouse. Christina pays attention to detail and finds the treasure in nearly everything.
But in Miami she was not yet committed to food as her creative medium.
Everything changed at age twenty-six when Christina was diagnosed with leukemia.
Her prognosis was not promising at all: She was given 9–months to live. Being from a family where most people don’t live past sixty-six, she didn’t turn to them for encouragement.
A dear friend asked her to meet his buddy who claimed to know how food cures cancer.
The buddy, Robert Pirello, introduced Christina to macrobiotics and plant-based eating and then proposed marriage. She said “Yes!” to him for an amazing partnership, personal and professional.
Robert Pirello had a crazy idea to make a healthy-cooking show starring his wife, and Christina Cooks was born in 1997. Robert is the flax seed that binds together the Christina Cooks empire, including an award-winning PBS television series, eight books, healthy-travel tours, cooking classes, and followers all around the world. He encourages her to dream big, which has paid off. For this dynamic duo the mission is helping people learn to improve their health as well as their carbon footprint by eating more consciously.
Despite their benefits, Christina learned quickly that plant foods are often served
as boring and unappealing. She returned to her culinary talents to make things delicious and coupled that with a second master’s degree—in food science and nutrition.
Her nine months to live became nine months to “spontaneous regression.” Her cancer has stayed in remission for eighteen months after her diagnosis. Instead of simply accepting it as a miracle, in 1988 Christina became a vegan macrobiotic chef to help save others. A lifelong athlete, Christina took it upon herself to win this challenge and make healthy food that would impress everyone, even Italian Nonna’s!
In its first year, the PBS television show Christina Cooks was broadcast throughout sixty-nine viewing areas (twelve is considered good). The chef’s delicious recipes, wacky sense
of humor, and whimsical personality earned her a Mid-Atlantic regional Emmy award in 1998. She didn’t even know that she was being nominated—her show producers applied for her. She never reapplied, she said, because one Emmy was enough. Her most prized award is the emails she gets from people every day about the positive impact she has had on their health.
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The major difference with the first season is that now Christina is an even stronger vegan. The show has always been vegan, but in the past, she wasn’t allowed to “inflict her views” on show staff. Now she’ll only buy vegan food for the crew.
Christina understands that veganism is more than just wholesome food. Even if you don’t care about your health, you do care about the future world for children and grandchildren. For Christina, veganism is where compassion starts, not where it ends. She extends harmlessness to all parts of life, and tries to live as low waste as possible with minimal paper products, organic laundry detergent, etc.
Robert is wholeheartedly sharing the lifestyle.
The Pirellos work well together because Robert also comes from a big Italian family
and cares about health, animals, and the environment. He has the business sense and marketing savvy, while she has the culinary enthusiasm and experience. They both love healthy travel. At age eighteen, Christina chaperoned her younger brother and his friends on a trip to Europe and at the end of the trip she spontaneously decided to live in Italy for nine months. She’s loved it ever since. Robert had his first experience of Italy at age fifty.
Now she and Robert arrange group travel tours to countries such as Italy, Croatia, and Spain. Guests stay at historic villas, dine on healthy meals, explore cultural sites, and meet locals. Robert cooks breakfast (his morning specialty is a feast), and Christina cooks either lunch or dinner; they also go out to restaurants for some meals. Everything served at the villas is vegan, but people can order what they want at restaurants.
There is something about eating healthy in a new place that changes people, she notes.
Three days in, even the hardcore “carnivorous” spouses order vegan, even though there
is no pressure put on them. Christina attributes — the program’s success to the fact that traveling broadens your perspectives about the world and other cultures.
The owner of a popular Philadelphia meat-centric restaurant went on a Pirellos-
led trip and ate vegan food for the entire two weeks. If he can do it, anyone can!
The Pirellos’ various endeavors are proof of the power that tasty vegan food has;
it can build bridges and transform lives.
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Dr. Rakesh Shaw’s premier 1/3 hour You Tube show meets with (PBS) healthy
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In a fascinating interview Christina reveals her early struggles with life threatening cancer
and how healthy cooking and living helped her conquer the deadly disease.
Dr. Shaw draws out an interesting conversation that will help inspire viewers to
change their eating habits and live a happier fuller life – all with the help of Christina!
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