Sue Brubaker asked:


Negative Calorie Foods and Longevity - The Super Connection!

Have you gained a few extra pounds during the winter that you’d like to get rid of before summer?

Spring is the perfect time to detoxify and rejuvenate your body, get rid of some extra pounds, increase your energy, improve your complexion, boost your immunity, and fight fatigue.

Mom always told us to eat our fruits and vegetables in order to be healthy.

It turns out she was right and now science agrees. Fruits, vegetables, and berries are important sources of antioxidants, which show great potential in the battle against aging and age-related diseases. As our bodies age, they no longer heal and repair as well as they once did.

Our bodies protect themselves with the antioxidants that we get from food and supplements by neutralizing free radicals. As these antioxidants are used up in the neutralizing process, there is a constant need to replenish the body’s antioxidant resources.

The highest concentrations of antioxidants are found in berries, fruits and vegetables. A great majority of people don’t consume nearly enough of these foods to adequately replenish their antioxidant resources.

There may be no fountain of youth to halt the effects of aging. However, antioxidants and negative calorie foods may hold the key to solving some of the health and weight problems associated with aging and help us maintain youth and vitality.

Foods in The Negative Calorie Diet are great antioxidants and help reduce the risk of cancer and heart disease.

Common ‘Negative Calorie’ Fruits can also help:

Apricots - protect the eyes

Blackberries - prevent cataracts and constipation

Blackcurrants - reduce cholesterol and prevent constipation

Cantaloupe - lower blood pressure and cholesterol, prevent cataracts

Grapefruit - relieve cold symptons, reduce bruising, prevent stroke

Guava - aid in digestion

Honeydew Melons - keep blood pressure low

Lemons - heal cuts and bruises

Mandarin oranges - stop inflammation

Peaches - protect the eyes

Plums - very high in antioxidants

Raspberries - prevent cataracts and constipation

Rhubarb - lower cholesterol, boost immunity, ease digestive problems

Strawberries - very high in antioxidants

Tomatoes - prevent cataracts, keep older people active

Watermelon - keep blood pressure low

Common ‘Negative Calorie’ Vegetables can also help:

Asparagus - prevent anemia and maintain new cells

Broccoli- boost immunity

Cabbage - prevent cataracts

Carrots - improve night vision

Cauliflower - inhibit tumor growth and boost immune system

Celery - reduce high blood pressure

Chicory - very high in vitamin C

Cress - prevent cataracts and wrinkles

Fennel - ease hot flashes and settle the stomach

Peppers - prevent cataracts

Spinach - control blood pressure and protect against vision loss

Summer is on the way. If you want to get rid of those extra pounds and perform a spring clean of your body’s internal organs, “The Negative Calorie Diet” is a great way to start.

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Benny

Swami Satchidanand asked:


The key to a long and healthy life lies in staying active, eating more fruit and grains, and practicing massage and meditation in order to shed stress and create enthusiasm for life.

You can live longer possibly by reducing your risks of the age-related diseases, especially cardiovascular disease.

But, the real emphasis is not on life extension. It’s on healthy aging, trying to keep healthy as long as possible.

The key to longevity is delaying the onset and reducing the risk of age-related disease. Age-related disease are these big categories of illness that become more common after age 60 and that account for a great deal of premature death and disability.

So, the big ones are cardiovascular disease, cancer, Alzheimer’s disease and its Parkinsons disease. So, I think the emphasis is on preventing those, showing you how to reduce the risk or delay the onset. Into this comes family history, personal history to see where your greatest risks are. Then concentrate the preventive efforts in those areas.

It’s not all that complicated. It just means doing some work, though. It means doing some homework and then learning the information that you need then applying it. And it’s applying it really in all areas of your lifestyle. It means looking at how you eat, how you use dietary supplements, how you exercise, how you handle stress, how you sleep, how you rest, how you deal with your mind, how to create meaning and significance in what you do. You know, you really need to work in all those areas to ensure healthy aging.

If you are smoking probably its not possible do much for you. And if you’re not paying attention to weight and not paying attention to your cholesterol and not paying attention to other medical risks that you may have, you know, you can put all the flowers you want in your house and it’s not gonna help.

De-stress using methods which work for you - everything from doing yoga to listening to relaxing music to getting massaged. Breathing methods are cost efficient and time efficient. And these mostly come from the yoga tradition. From these techniques Meditation is the Big Kahuna at 20 minutes per day.

Eat fewer foods of animal origin; more fruits and vegetables; more plant-based protein from soy foods, for example.

Make sure you’ve got omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids in your diet, either from oily fish, or Flax Seed Oil.

Try to reduce consumption of quick-digesting carbohydrate foods, which are the ones made from any kind of flour, sugar, high fructose corn syrup.

And try to eat more of the slower-digesting carbohydrate foods, which are beans, whole grains, packed grains, winter squashes, sweet potatoes.

Really learn the differences between good fats and bad fats. Fry Less. Use cold pressed organic olive oil and flax seed oil as a main oil in salads. Include nuts, seeds, avocados, in your diet.

Reduce the amount of poisonous pesticides and steroids in your diet by buying anything which is concentrated, like oils or meat, organically, which just means that it is produced without pesticides or steroids.

Take a good multivitamin, multimineral supplement. Add things to the diet, like green tea and dark chocolate and red wine, in moderation, if you want their antioxidant effects.

Well, I think aside from eating right, you want to maintain physical activity throughout life. And that doesn’t mean you have to run marathons, or go to aerobics classes. Walking is a perfectly good physical activity if you do enough of it regularly enough. You want to learn some method of stress management. You know, like breathing exercises.

You want to really try to identify negative thought patterns that lead to negative behavior, - eating too much and smoking, or too angry or depressed, and see how you can change them through meditation and Advanced Energy Enhancement Techniques.

I think you want to keep your mind active, whether that’s by learning another language, or changing your computer operating system frequently. You want to stay connected and involved with life. Usually this comes less mechanically and selfishly than the previous methods by finding something you are really interested in and that which can help other people.

Again meditation can create this meaning and significance effect of enthusiasm for life, which really is the key. I think you really want to try to focus on the positive attributes of wisdom that come with aging, as well as the negative ones. For example, people die very quickly after retirement because they have lost their reason for living.

After all the above, if we have enthusiasm for life we live longer. Meaning and Significance in what we do comes from accessing higher energies through Meditation.



Aubrey