Diet Basics
Throughout the book Perricone devotes a chapter to the seven factors that must be addressed in order to delay and prevent the onset of the negative effects of aging.
All of these elements are brought together in a dietary, supplement, and lifestyle plan that is designed to promote a longer and healthier life.
1) Cellular Rejuvenation
Focuses on improving the function of the cells by optimal nutrition. This involves increasing the intake of foods high in omega 3 fatty acids and antioxidants.
Specific supplements to boost cellular function are also described such as alpha lipoic acid, acetyl L carnitine and coenzyme Q10.
2) Lean for Life
Teaches dieters how to maintain an ideal weight without the need to count calories. Perricone says that all we need to do is to learn to control our blood sugar. This is achieved by avoiding most carbohydrate foods with the exception of fruit, vegetables, and legumes.
He also explains that “we can even turn on the genes that suppress appetite and turn off the genetic switch that tells the body to store fat” by making simple dietary adjustments.
3) Supporting our Support Structure
Shows how to prevent loss of bone density, even after menopause, by taking key nutrients in the right combinations.
4) The Skin We’re In
Perricone highlights the fact that the signs of aging on the skin are a reflection of what is happening inside our body.
He says that the best way to improve the appearance of the skin is to eat a high quality anti-inflammatory diet containing adequate protein, combined with certain topical treatments and electronic muscle stimulation.
5) Sex for Life
Maintaining a healthy sex life confers many health and potential longevity benefits. Perricone highlights how neuropeptides, pheromones and traditional medicines can assist in this goal.
6) Reversing Aging Through Exercise
Exercise not only reduces the incidence of age-related diseases, but also allows us to stay fit and active with the capacity to enjoy life to its fullest.
7) Stress Reduction=Life Extension
Controlling mental and physical stress is the key to a long, healthy, and happy life. Perricone outlines strategies for dealing with stress including stress-fighting nutritional supplements.
Recommended Foods
Wild salmon, anchovies, trout, sardines, avocados, grass-fed beef, olive oil, onions, garlic, apples, berries, grapefruit, pears, peaches, plums, almonds, pistachios, walnuts, pumpkin seeds, sesame seeds, goat yogurt, lentils, chickpeas, oats, barley, buckwheat, spinach, kale, sea vegetables, red wine.
Sample Diet Plan
Breakfast
Omelet with spinach, onion and mushroom
Morning Snack
Goat yogurt with blueberries
Lunch
Green salad with free-range chicken and avocado
Afternoon Snack
Hummus with crudités
Dinner
Baked salmon with asparagus and caper lemon sauce
Spinach salad with fresh raspberries
1 glass Pinot Noir
Dessert
Feta, toasted walnut and fresh pears
Exercise Recommendations
7 Secrets to Beauty, Health and Longevity says that in order to maintain our health as we age we need to incorporate specific types of exercise. Ironically the wrong type of exercise, such as an excessive amount of aerobic activity, may actually increase the aging process.
Yoga and tai chi provide physical, mental and emotional benefits that are unique and cannot be obtained through traditional styles of exercise.
The book also includes a ten-minute exercise program designed to increase cellular rejuvenation, with detailed descriptions and photographs of the movements.
Costs and Expenses
Dr. Perricone’s 7 Secrets to Beauty, Health, and Longevity: The Miracle of Cellular Rejuvenation retails at $18.
Pros
* Does not require calorie counting.
* Provides unique information regarding anti-aging.
* Holistic approach that acknowledges the importance of addressing diet, physical activity and stress management.
* Includes recipes.
Cons
* Not specifically targeted towards weight loss.
* Does not include a meal plan.
* Places a large emphasis on the use of nutritional supplements, which can be expensive.
Conclusions
Perricone presents a comprehensive plan to reduce the aging process that is based on scientific research. Although many benefits can be received by adopting the dietary and lifestyle recommendations in the 7 Secrets to Beauty, Health and Longevity, some of the nutritional supplements are very expensive, thus it will be outside the range of many people to follow the program exactly as suggested.
Wednesday, 9 December 2009
Tips for Making Healthier Fast Food Choices
America has been called a "fast food nation" and for good reason. Everyday, one out of four Americans eats fast food. If you are eating out, fast food restaurants are often the cheapest option, but unfortunately, not usually the healthiest one. Eating just one fast food meal can pack enough calories, sodium and fat for an entire day, but the quick-and-cheap temptation can be hard to resist.
As an informed customer, you can make healthier choices and still enjoy the convenience of fast food restaurants.
Learning to make healthier choices at fast food restaurants
Making healthier choices at fast food restaurants is easier if you prepare ahead by checking guides that show you the nutritional content of meal choices at your favorite restaurants. Free downloadable guides help you evaluate your options. If you have a special dietary concern, such as diabetes, heart health or weight loss, the websites of national non-profits provide useful advice. You can also choose to patronize restaurants that focus on natural, high quality food.
If you don’t prepare ahead of time, common sense guidelines help to make your meal healthier. For example, a seemingly healthy salad can be a diet minefield when smothered in high-fat dressing and fried toppings, so choose a salad with fresh veggies, grilled toppings and a lighter dressing. Portion control is also important, as many fast food restaurants serve enough food for several meals in the guise of a single serving.
As an informed customer, you can make healthier choices and still enjoy the convenience of fast food restaurants.
Learning to make healthier choices at fast food restaurants
Making healthier choices at fast food restaurants is easier if you prepare ahead by checking guides that show you the nutritional content of meal choices at your favorite restaurants. Free downloadable guides help you evaluate your options. If you have a special dietary concern, such as diabetes, heart health or weight loss, the websites of national non-profits provide useful advice. You can also choose to patronize restaurants that focus on natural, high quality food.
If you don’t prepare ahead of time, common sense guidelines help to make your meal healthier. For example, a seemingly healthy salad can be a diet minefield when smothered in high-fat dressing and fried toppings, so choose a salad with fresh veggies, grilled toppings and a lighter dressing. Portion control is also important, as many fast food restaurants serve enough food for several meals in the guise of a single serving.
Carbohydrates
Carbohydrates – food composed of some combination of starches, sugar and fiber - provide the body with fuel it needs for physical activity by breaking down into glucose, a type of sugar our cells use as a universal energy source.
* Bad carbs are foods that have been “stripped” of all bran, fiber, and nutrients. They have been processed in order to make cooking fast and easy. Examples are white flour, refined sugar, and white rice. They digest so quickly that they cause dramatic elevations in blood sugar, which over time can lead to weight gain, hypoglycemia or even diabetes.
* Good carbs are digested more slowly. This keeps your blood sugar and insulin levels from rising and falling too quickly, helping you get full quicker and feel fuller longer. Good sources of carbs include whole grains, beans, fruits, and vegetables, which also offer lots of additional health benefits, including heart disease and cancer prevention.
* Bad carbs are foods that have been “stripped” of all bran, fiber, and nutrients. They have been processed in order to make cooking fast and easy. Examples are white flour, refined sugar, and white rice. They digest so quickly that they cause dramatic elevations in blood sugar, which over time can lead to weight gain, hypoglycemia or even diabetes.
* Good carbs are digested more slowly. This keeps your blood sugar and insulin levels from rising and falling too quickly, helping you get full quicker and feel fuller longer. Good sources of carbs include whole grains, beans, fruits, and vegetables, which also offer lots of additional health benefits, including heart disease and cancer prevention.
Sunday, 25 October 2009
Slow Cooker Red Beans and Rice
This is the ultimate in thriftiness and convenience - beans in a slow cooker. The long, slow cooking time coaxes all the flavor from the sausage into the beans for a mild yet full-flavored dish. You can also cook in on low heat for 8 hours.
Yield
4 servings (serving size: 1 cup bean mixture, 3/4 cup rice, and 1 tablespoon green onions)
Ingredients
* 3 cups water
* 1 cup dried red kidney beans
* 1 cup chopped onion
* 1 cup chopped green bell pepper
* 3/4 cup chopped celery
* 1 teaspoon dried thyme
* 1 teaspoon paprika
* 3/4 teaspoon ground red pepper
* 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
* 1/2 (14-ounce) package turkey, pork, and beef smoked sausage, thinly sliced (such as Healthy Choice)
* 1 bay leaf
* 5 garlic cloves, minced
* 1/2 teaspoon salt
* 3 cups hot cooked long-grain rice
* 1/4 cup chopped green onions
Preparation
Combine first 12 ingredients in an electric slow cooker. Cover with lid; cook on high heat for 5 hours. Discard bay leaf; stir in salt. Serve over rice; sprinkle servings evenly with green onions.
Nutritional Information
Calories:
413 (5% from fat)
Fat:
2.5g (sat 0.7g,mono 0.2g,poly 0.5g)
Protein:
21.1g
Carbohydrate:
76.3g
Fiber:
10.1g
Cholesterol:
18mg
Iron:
6mg
Sodium:
749mg
Calcium:
102mg
Yield
4 servings (serving size: 1 cup bean mixture, 3/4 cup rice, and 1 tablespoon green onions)
Ingredients
* 3 cups water
* 1 cup dried red kidney beans
* 1 cup chopped onion
* 1 cup chopped green bell pepper
* 3/4 cup chopped celery
* 1 teaspoon dried thyme
* 1 teaspoon paprika
* 3/4 teaspoon ground red pepper
* 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
* 1/2 (14-ounce) package turkey, pork, and beef smoked sausage, thinly sliced (such as Healthy Choice)
* 1 bay leaf
* 5 garlic cloves, minced
* 1/2 teaspoon salt
* 3 cups hot cooked long-grain rice
* 1/4 cup chopped green onions
Preparation
Combine first 12 ingredients in an electric slow cooker. Cover with lid; cook on high heat for 5 hours. Discard bay leaf; stir in salt. Serve over rice; sprinkle servings evenly with green onions.
Nutritional Information
Calories:
413 (5% from fat)
Fat:
2.5g (sat 0.7g,mono 0.2g,poly 0.5g)
Protein:
21.1g
Carbohydrate:
76.3g
Fiber:
10.1g
Cholesterol:
18mg
Iron:
6mg
Sodium:
749mg
Calcium:
102mg
Tuesday, 13 October 2009
Tips for a Healthy Diet and Better Nutrition
Healthy eating is not about strict nutrition philosophies, staying unrealistically thin, or depriving yourself of the foods you love. Rather, it’s about feeling great, having more energy, and keeping yourself as healthy as possible – all which can be achieved by learning some nutrition basics and incorporating them in a way that works for you.
Choose the types of foods that improve your health and avoid the types of foods that raise your risk for such illnesses as heart disease, cancer, and diabetes. Expand your range of healthy choices to include a wide variety of delicious foods. Learn to use guidelines and tips for creating and maintaining a satisfying, healthy diet.
Choose the types of foods that improve your health and avoid the types of foods that raise your risk for such illnesses as heart disease, cancer, and diabetes. Expand your range of healthy choices to include a wide variety of delicious foods. Learn to use guidelines and tips for creating and maintaining a satisfying, healthy diet.
Friday, 12 September 2008
water and a healthy body
Before action out there and aloof purchasing any old facial cleanser cream, you should aboriginal apprentice at atomic a little bit about what it takes in adjustment to accumulate your bark as advantageous as it can be. A abounding abounding of the facial cleansers on the bazaar accommodate accommodation that can be adverse not abandoned to your skin, but to your all-embracing bloom as well.
The chemicals that are acclimated in the majority of facial cleanser chrism acquire been accounted chancy to our health. The American cosmetics industry is abnormally accusable of application these kinds of accommodation in their cosmetics creams. Abounding of the compounds that are acceptable for use in cosmetics in the United States are accepted carcinogens.
It has been the advocacy of dermatologists for abounding years to abstain facial cleansing chrism and any added cosmetics which independent engineered fragrances or constructed preservatives, because they acquire been to accusation for too abounding allergic reactions. We acquire afresh abstruse that some of these actinic preservatives can absolutely account cancer.
The accusable parties in this case are a accumulation of preservatives alleged parabens. If you attending on the accommodation characterization of aloof about any facial cleansers you will acquisition the chat parabens on there somewhere. These four chemicals acquire all been affiliated to blight in abounding studies.
Doctors and advisers feel that parabens are apparently one of the greatest threats to our health. The acumen for this is that they can be activate in about all of our facial cleanser chrism and added corrective products. U.S manufacturers at times put assorted parabens preservatives in the aforementioned product, thereby adding our risk.
Fragrances in facial cleansers and added articles acquire been referred to as a actinic "minefield". There is estimated to be over 4,000 altered chemicals that are commonly acclimated in the engineering of assorted cosmetics fragrances. Abounding of these chemicals are advised toxic, and cipher knows absolutely what affectionate of an aftereffect the chemicals acquire on the anatomy aback they are alloyed in these capricious combinations.
Although the accident of damaging your bloom is almost small, there is absolutely no acumen at all to alike booty the chance. There is a safe and able facial cleanser chrism that can be activate if we abandoned attending adamantine abounding for it. There are abounding on the bazaar appropriate now that accommodate annihilation except tea timberline oil and antiseptic water.
Another able amoebic additive that is actuality acclimated in facial cleansers is orange oil. This oil is acquired through the case of the orange, and is extracted from the case by a action of distillation. While orange oil does accomplish an able cleanser, it may be a little too able for bodies who acquire acute skin.
The chemicals that are acclimated in the majority of facial cleanser chrism acquire been accounted chancy to our health. The American cosmetics industry is abnormally accusable of application these kinds of accommodation in their cosmetics creams. Abounding of the compounds that are acceptable for use in cosmetics in the United States are accepted carcinogens.
It has been the advocacy of dermatologists for abounding years to abstain facial cleansing chrism and any added cosmetics which independent engineered fragrances or constructed preservatives, because they acquire been to accusation for too abounding allergic reactions. We acquire afresh abstruse that some of these actinic preservatives can absolutely account cancer.
The accusable parties in this case are a accumulation of preservatives alleged parabens. If you attending on the accommodation characterization of aloof about any facial cleansers you will acquisition the chat parabens on there somewhere. These four chemicals acquire all been affiliated to blight in abounding studies.
Doctors and advisers feel that parabens are apparently one of the greatest threats to our health. The acumen for this is that they can be activate in about all of our facial cleanser chrism and added corrective products. U.S manufacturers at times put assorted parabens preservatives in the aforementioned product, thereby adding our risk.
Fragrances in facial cleansers and added articles acquire been referred to as a actinic "minefield". There is estimated to be over 4,000 altered chemicals that are commonly acclimated in the engineering of assorted cosmetics fragrances. Abounding of these chemicals are advised toxic, and cipher knows absolutely what affectionate of an aftereffect the chemicals acquire on the anatomy aback they are alloyed in these capricious combinations.
Although the accident of damaging your bloom is almost small, there is absolutely no acumen at all to alike booty the chance. There is a safe and able facial cleanser chrism that can be activate if we abandoned attending adamantine abounding for it. There are abounding on the bazaar appropriate now that accommodate annihilation except tea timberline oil and antiseptic water.
Another able amoebic additive that is actuality acclimated in facial cleansers is orange oil. This oil is acquired through the case of the orange, and is extracted from the case by a action of distillation. While orange oil does accomplish an able cleanser, it may be a little too able for bodies who acquire acute skin.
healthy things for the body
Reducing anatomy fat can account best bodies by abbreviation abounding inherent or abeyant bloom problems. In accession to adorable added adequate afterwards accident weight, adequate weight accident affairs will ensure that your accepted bloom and affluence will be abounding improved. An attainable account of affair could be Diabetes and its accompanying bloom problems. Special diabetic aliment affairs for weight accident are about attainable and are adequate at acclamation the needs of bodies adversity from the disease. It is not about accepted that Diabetes is a aloft account of branch ache and can be a cogent contributor to the access of fractional or abounding blindness. Top weight accident affairs can usually be calmly acclimatized to a diabetic diet should the ache already acquire progressed to an animate condition, admitting for others, accepted weight accident bistro affairs will admonition abstain off the consequential bloom problems.
Diabetes leads to a 400% access in the adventitious of adversity from a achievement and at the aforementioned time contributes to the adventitious of accepting affection disease. Thus bodies who are ample accident a bifold anathema of aboriginal developing Diabetes and again adversity the accessory furnishings of added risk. A advisable actuality adeptness accordingly adjudge to chase bistro diet affairs whilst still in adequate all-embracing bloom so that he/she is not affected to analyze weight accident affairs aback it is too late.
Overweight bodies are awful acceptable to be accountable to aerial levels of claret cholesterol and college readings of claret pressure. Accident some weight may able-bodied affluence this situation, but starting alpha weight accident affairs in these affairs is best done afterwards appointment with your doctor.
No bulk what your age, you can accomplish a apparent advance in your health, and abate the achievability of ill-health afterwards in life, by demography actual accomplish to participate in one of the abounding bistro affairs for weight accident that are currently available.
Did you apperceive that if you are overweight, it is added acceptable that you snore at night than accession who is at a college fettle akin than you? This is because blubbery tissue at the aback of the throat blocks the acclimatized air passage, which after-effects in active beddy-bye and bargain action levels. This acutely has amusing repercussions, but added decidedly can abate your accepted affluence during the day. The botheration can be bargain appreciably by afterward one of the diet diet affairs advised both to admonition you lose weight and to advance able vitamin levels.
Using such weight accident diet affairs to abate alike a babyish bulk of anatomy fat should accord a cogent abridgement in the addiction to snore and aftermath added action as a aftereffect of added and added adequate sleep.
Being over annoyed as a aftereffect of actuality overweight, absolutely leads to added overeating in adjustment to accession action levels, which of advance abandoned makes the accomplished bearings worse. Best acknowledged weight accident affairs are able to cut through this connected amphitheater and action a planned access to application weight accident as a agency of bringing a added advantageous lifestyle, with beneath bloom problems to its participants.
Sensitive Bark Facial Cleaner Chrism by Andrea Marshall
Diabetes leads to a 400% access in the adventitious of adversity from a achievement and at the aforementioned time contributes to the adventitious of accepting affection disease. Thus bodies who are ample accident a bifold anathema of aboriginal developing Diabetes and again adversity the accessory furnishings of added risk. A advisable actuality adeptness accordingly adjudge to chase bistro diet affairs whilst still in adequate all-embracing bloom so that he/she is not affected to analyze weight accident affairs aback it is too late.
Overweight bodies are awful acceptable to be accountable to aerial levels of claret cholesterol and college readings of claret pressure. Accident some weight may able-bodied affluence this situation, but starting alpha weight accident affairs in these affairs is best done afterwards appointment with your doctor.
No bulk what your age, you can accomplish a apparent advance in your health, and abate the achievability of ill-health afterwards in life, by demography actual accomplish to participate in one of the abounding bistro affairs for weight accident that are currently available.
Did you apperceive that if you are overweight, it is added acceptable that you snore at night than accession who is at a college fettle akin than you? This is because blubbery tissue at the aback of the throat blocks the acclimatized air passage, which after-effects in active beddy-bye and bargain action levels. This acutely has amusing repercussions, but added decidedly can abate your accepted affluence during the day. The botheration can be bargain appreciably by afterward one of the diet diet affairs advised both to admonition you lose weight and to advance able vitamin levels.
Using such weight accident diet affairs to abate alike a babyish bulk of anatomy fat should accord a cogent abridgement in the addiction to snore and aftermath added action as a aftereffect of added and added adequate sleep.
Being over annoyed as a aftereffect of actuality overweight, absolutely leads to added overeating in adjustment to accession action levels, which of advance abandoned makes the accomplished bearings worse. Best acknowledged weight accident affairs are able to cut through this connected amphitheater and action a planned access to application weight accident as a agency of bringing a added advantageous lifestyle, with beneath bloom problems to its participants.
Sensitive Bark Facial Cleaner Chrism by Andrea Marshall
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