Category: Motivational
Aging Gracefully or Surgically?
Interesting interview comparing how celebrities age today VS a few decades ago.
Some downplay or conceal their cosmetic surgery history, but have no qualms about promoting over-the-counter products for a paycheck. It’s the non-celebrity types like us who are being “taken to the cleaners” as we naively invest in these miracle potions.
The Meat Paradox
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Many people eat factory-farmed meat while also abhorring animal cruelty. In this adaptation from her new book, the psychological scientist Dr Julia Shaw explains what the “meat paradox” can tell us about moral decision making.
Diabetes Nutrition Made Simple
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From Forks Over Knives website.
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Canada’s New Dietary Guidelines
For those who need their government to instruct them on nutritional matters… here ya go. What’s nearly absent from this plate?
Read about Canada’s new nutritional guidelines here.
Blood Channels in Bones
“We have the bone marrow, which produces the blood cells, and when you need them, you need them urgently. But how do they get out?” said Svetlana Komarova, who studies bone biology at McGill University in Montreal.
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[osteoporosis] drugs might increase bone density, but might lessen blood flow between the marrow and the exterior of the bone.
Anatomy of surprise: Scientists discover hidden blood networks that cross through bone
Not “No-Carbs”, but “Slow-Carbs”!
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/01/21/686603016/you-dont-have-to-go-no-carb-instead-think-slow-carb
One Meal a Day? Hmm…
https://youtu.be/coy5WkeUFSA
Yoshinori Nagumo, MD
Check out this one minute video.
One meal a day? Hmm, how about eating daily during a brief window of time? Maybe 8 hour window, or 6, reducing to 4 hour window? Some say eat nothing until 4pm, and stop by 6 (or 7, or 8pm). Since I sleep 8pm-4am I’d push these eating times back by a couple of hours. Wouldn’t hurt to give it a try! 
Landmark study finds high fiber cuts heart disease risk
Sugar is a “bad” carbohydrate, but fibre is found in “good” carbohydrates such as wholegrain bread and oat-based muesli. However, the overwhelming backlash against sugar has led to popular diets that reject carbohydrates, including the fibrous sort that can, say the scientists, save lives.
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“Fibre-rich whole foods that require chewing and retain much of their structure in the gut increase satiety and help weight control and can favourably influence lipid and glucose levels,” said Mann.
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“This is the end of 50 years of researching dietary fibre. It is a defining moment,” he said. The research brings together population epidemiological studies and feeding studies and, he said, “we now know that fibre does things in the body which give us a credible explanation for how this works”.
“We need to get this written in stone and part of people’s lives.”