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The three worst food additives!
According to Australian health data, since 1950, life expectancy has been rising, but so is illness.
The four headliners topping the modern illness leaderboard are;
⚕️ Cardiovascular disease
⚕️ Cancer
⚕️ Metabolism disease – diabetes & obesity.
⚕️ Cognitive disease – Alzheimer's.
There is a connection between introducing and developing ultra-processed food and rising poor health.
While most food is processed in some way, ultra-processed food refers to unreal food where the texture, flavour, & aroma has been altered or created.
Think of pretty much everything available at a service station - the Dorito effect!
Experts suggest the three most evil food & health destructive additives are (certainly concerning metabolic disease);
🚫 Emulsifiers - #’s in the 400’s.
🚫 Flavour enhancers - #’s in the 600’s.
🚫 Aroma enhacers - #’s in the 700’s.
Why?
The three additives typically change the natural appetite.
The natural appetite should drive what to eat, how much, and when to eat.
As soon as you change or create the texture (usually to soft), the flavour & aroma, you disrupt the brain’s understanding of what your body needs on this day and, importantly, when to stop.
Spend a week checking out and avoiding any (unreal) food featuring #'s in the 400’s 600’s & 700’s.
I bet you feel better at the end of the week!
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le freaks!
Heart beats at rest over 5 hours = 9,000 hb’s.
Heartbeats per 5 hour stage = 49,500 hb’s.
Breaths at rest over 5 hours = 2,100 & 900L.
Breaths per 5 hour stage = 10,500 & 15,000L.
Litres of blood pumped at rest over 5 hours = 1,500L.
Litres of blood pumped per 5 hour stage = 9,000L.
Calories burned at rest over 5 hours = 150 cals.
Calories burned per 5 hour stage = 2,250 cals.
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Better with Age!
Go, Heather!
Heather has been a keen runner for years and enjoyed her annual City to Surf and the odd half marathon.
In addition to enjoying it, she ran mostly for its positive effects on her health and well-being.
Enter the pandemic, and enter Heather’s interest in running a marathon (42.2kms).
Now with two marathons under her belt, Heather is getting faster with each event, despite the textbook’s assertion that she ought to be slowing down.
Heather sticks to a simple but consistent training routine.
A mid-week hilly run, flanked by two easier and shorter trots. Her key weekly session is the long run on the weekend.
Her long runs increase from 90 minutes to 2 and half hours.
Rarely does she push her intensity over what I call her DTi (default training intensity) - CLICK.
I believe the two key features of Heather’s continued healthy training (and racing) to be;
🏃♀️ Training at her ideal aerobic effort [DTi] (conversational pace), and
🏃♀️ 2-3 resistance training sessions – engaging her back, core, hips & legs.
Well done, Heather!
Sadly, all I see of you now is your back!
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Attention, Gents!
Brad Pamp & Men’s Health offers the ‘Outage 4 Men Program’.
The ultimate simplified 28-day menu for men.
I can't design a scalable diet suiting everyone or a plan that is entirely
devoid of processed foods, but recent findings indicate that this plan is as near as I can get it.
What worked!
🫵 Tell em what to eat, when to eat, and how much to eat!
🫵 Don’t give em a hundred options or variables.
🫵 Give em the super simple (Woollies) shopping list.
🫵 Show em how to prep meals and contain meals before they overeat.
🫵 Give em wildcards (yes, the beers are in).
What we found on completion.
Everyone,
👍 Felt considerably better – more energy (brain & biceps),
👍 Slept better,
👍 Lost kegs they didn’t need.
Consider it your yearly 4-week outage service!
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The Malasana (Garland) Pose!
A Yoga expert mate has been pitching the functional de-aging benefits of this supposed super pose for years.
So, with the mounting number of hours watching the Ashes & the Tour, I set myself the goal of holding this pose for 5 minutes every hour of viewing.
My return after 120 minutes of total time spent holding this pose.
Wow!
🧘♀️ My aging lower back feels up to bowling a few overs of right arm slow-medium!
🧘♀️ I can touch my toes again, just!
🧘♀️ My entire pelvis 'feels like dancing' (but I will not be dancing), &
🧘♀️ I 'feel' taller (despite the tape measure).
While I felt starting restriction, after 4-5 (5 min) sessions the results were obvious.
Give it a crack! There's plenty more late-night sport coming up!