“We found that people who ate nuts every day lived longer, healthier lives than people who didn’t eat nuts,” said study co-author Dr. Frank Hu, professor of nutrition and epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health. The report, in tomorrow’s New England Journal of Medicine, showed that daily nut-eaters were less likely to die of cancer, heart disease, and respiratory disease. Overall, the daily nut-eaters were 20% less likely to have died during the course of the study than those who avoided nuts. (Peanuts, which are actually legumes, counted as nuts in this study).”
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Month: July 2019
Health Hack: Plant a Fig Tree
My fig tree is two years old and I have an abundant harvest this year. The mockingbirds and I share them. LOL. Figs have incredible benefits. Check out the following benefits from eating figs.
Compared to other foods, figs were found to be one of the densest in phenolic antioxidants and nutrients, mostly fiber, in a study on the amount and quality of phenol antioxidants in dried and fresh fruits. . . . Figs are dense in phenol antioxidants and nutrients, especially fiber. They’re potent antioxidants.
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Grammar Tip: Affect & Effect
Writers’ Wisdom: Cooks Have a Lesson for Writers
“No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, the wisdom of cookbook writers.” ~ Laurie Colwin
Those Who Do Not Dance ~ Gabriela Mistral
Those Who Do Not Dance
Gabriela Mistral
A crippled child
Said, ‘How shall I dance?’
Let your heart dance
We said.
Then the invalid said:
‘How shall I sing?’
Let your heart sing
We said
Then spoke the poor dead thistle,
But I, how shall I dance?’
Let your heart fly to the wind
We said.
Then God spoke from above
‘How shall I descend from the blue?’
Come dance for us here in the light
We said.
All the valley is dancing
Together under the sun,
And the heart of him who joins us not
Is turned to dust, to dust.
Today’s Reflection: What Do You See?
It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see. ~ Henry David Thoreau
Enjoy My New Page: Quotes for the Tough Times
Nutrition Hack: 1 of 10 Intuitive Eating Principles
Intuitive Eating Principle #1
Reject the diet mentality. The diet mentality is the idea that there’s a diet out there that will work for you. Intuitive eating is the anti-diet.
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Stress Hack: Does It Really Matter?
Quick Tips For Handling Stress
- If you allow others to make you stressed, you are allowing them to control you.
- Do you really want others pulling your strings?
- Look at stress as a test.
- Do you want to fail that test by getting stressed out.
- The only person responsible for your stress is you.
- Stress is energy. Are you going to use this energy for something productive or destructive?
- Will it matter tomorrow? Next week? Next Month?
Longevity Hack: Real Food is Better than Supplements
An adequate intake of certain nutrients from food, but not supplements, is linked with a lower rate of death, according to a study in the April 9, 2019, Annals of Internal Medicine. Researchers looked at the relationship between food and supplements and death from all causes among more than 30,000 adults. The results shows that adequate intakes of vitamin K, vitamin A, magnesium, zinc, and copper were associated with a lower risk of death from cardiovascular disease—but only if they came from food and not supplements. They also found that excess calcium intake from supplements — more than 1,000 milligrams per day — was associated with a higher risk of cancer death. This amount is difficult to reach with food, but is easier with supplements.
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Health Hack: Walking & Breast Cancer
“[Walking] reduces the risk of developing breast cancer. Researchers already know that any kind of physical activity blunts the risk of breast cancer. But an American Cancer Society study that zeroed in on walking found that women who walked seven or more hours a week had a 14% lower risk of breast cancer than those who walked three hours or fewer per week. And walking provided this protection even for the women with breast cancer risk factors, such as being overweight or using supplemental hormones.”
Source: Healthbeat Harvard Medical School
