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HOME-COOKING, EGGY MUFFINS AND EASTER RECIPES!

March 26, 2021 5 Comments

Spring is springing and Sunday brings one of my favourite days of the year – right up there with my birthday  – Daylight Saving. I love the clocks going forward, bringing lighter evenings and the promise of warmer days ahead. The move into spring, and the approach of the Easter break, is particularly pertinent this… 

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COULD WINTER SEA SWIMMING LIFT YOUR MOOD?

March 7, 2021 4 Comments

Last week Teenage Daughter asked me to go for a sea swim with her.  It was February. It was cold. I had just rolled out of my deliciously warm bed. But having spent the last year saying ‘No’ to all her requests (Can I see a friend? No. Can I go out? No. Can I… 

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WHAT IF THERE WAS ONE VITAMIN THAT SLOWS AGEING? AND A LONGEVITY-BOOSTING RECIPE

January 29, 2021 2 Comments

Wouldn’t it be lovely if there was just one thing we could do, one food to eat or one supplement to take which would slow down ageing? It would make everything so simple. But ageing is such a complex process that one quick fix is as likely as flying pigs. There has, however, been a… 

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WHAT’S HAPPENING IN YOUR BODY AS YOU AGE, AND A BRAIN HEALTH MASTERCLASS

January 16, 2021 12 Comments

Hi there, how are you feeling? I was so hoping that 2021 would be a fresh start for us all, but here we are (in the UK at least) back in lockdown and facing a rather grim first few months of the year. So I’ve been looking at fresh starts in other ways – not… 

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THE SILVER BULLET FOR ALZHEIMER’S? AND OUR FAVOURITE CHRISTMAS RECIPES

December 23, 2020 Leave a Comment

It’s going to be a strange Christmas for many of us: plans scrapped at the last minute, not seeing friends and family in the way that we hoped and potential food shortages. Honestly, who’s stockpiling lettuce?! The only option is to make this  festive season the best we can, finding joy in the small things… 

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WHY A 12 MINUTE WALK IS ALL IT TAKES (AND A SPECIAL OFFER)

December 5, 2020 2 Comments

This week a recent report on exercise caught my eye.  As the days shorten and darken, as the weather closes in, those long walks we all took in the magnificently sunny lockdown #1 don’t seem quite so appealing. For those of us in the UK, lockdown #2 has been subject to repeated deluges of rain,… 

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WHY YOUR SENSE OF SMELL MATTERS

November 12, 2020 8 Comments

How’s your sense of smell? In the recent – and ongoing – COVID crisis, our ability to smell (or not) has become one of the key indicators of whether we might have the virus. Indeed, the latest studies suggest that smell tests would be more effective than temperature tests in gaging who has and who… 

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Answering your most frequently-asked questions – and a giveaway

October 1, 2020 Leave a Comment

A huge thank you to everyone who came to my ‘Feel Great: Age Well’ webinar last month. It felt very special to launch The Age-Well Plan with our warm and wonderful community here. And if it wasn’t the In Real Life event I’d hoped for at the beginning of the year, it was lovely to… 

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WHY I’M EATING MORE MEAT AND MY NEW FAVOURITE SALAD

August 28, 2020 2 Comments

I know it’s controversial, and I know I’ve written a lot about eating more vegetables – and my own almost entirely plant-based diet – but recently I’ve started eating more meat. After years of reading and research, I’ve come to the conclusion that a little good quality meat isn’t the dietary bogeyman which will decimate… 

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AGEING WELL ON YOUR SUMMER STAYCATION, RASPBERRY CAKE – AND INVITATIONS!

August 15, 2020 8 Comments

This is the summer of the staycation – while some are bravely jetting off, I’m not one of them. There are so many wonderful things to do on our doorsteps here in the UK, many of which are corona compliant and can help us age well too. In my day-to-day life I juggle TV producing,… 

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Here you’ll find easy changes for a longer, happier life. We’ve immersed ourselves in the science of longevity and distilled the research to make it work in our everyday lives. You can change the way you age: here’s how.

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A really fun evening @putneywaterstones talking ab A really fun evening @putneywaterstones talking about Annabel’s book The Walking Cure and all things Age Well! 💚
We’ve always been a little wary of brain training We’ve always been a little wary of brain training exercises. There’s certainly plenty of them out there. They’re well researched, but the ultimate conclusion is often that they make you really good at playing that particular game with no substantial real-world benefits.
We’d usually rather read a book, play a board game or do a puzzle for a little cognitive sharpening. 

But new research linked specific cognitive training designed to improve speed of processing to a 25% lower risk of developing dementia across 20 years, compared to the control group. 

There’s more on the blog - link in stories and agewellproject.com 

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You’ll have heard that sitting is the new smoking, You’ll have heard that sitting is the new smoking, our sedentary lifestyles are killing us etc etc 

But is all sitting equally bad? it appears not. ‘Active sitting’ - where we’re engaged in a brain-healthy activity like reading or playing stimulating games, doesn’t have the same detrimental impact as slumping in front of the TV. 

It’s what we do when we’re sitting that counts. 

There’s more on the blog - linked in stories 

 #longevityblog #womenover50 #agewell
It is - finally - starting to get a little lighter It is - finally - starting to get a little lighter in the UK. 

But our lives are still full of artificial light, causing our body clocks to drift. The end result? Circadian disruption linked to higher risk of metabolic syndrome, cardiovascular disease, depression, and cognitive decline.

That light-dark imbalance also results in worse sleep and therefore also potentially poorer glymphatic clearance (the brain’s overnight clean up).

But there’s so much we can do to bring light into our lives - at any time of year.

There’s more on the blog - link in stories and agewellproject.com 

And are you enjoying the lighter mornings?! 

#longevityblog #womeonover50 #agewell
Some of our favourite activities - reading books, Some of our favourite activities - reading books, drinking tea, eating cheese (yes, we know how to live!) - have been linked to a longer, better life. 

A new study suggests that cheese  can lower our dementia risk – although no one is quite sure how or why. This new study found that eating 50 grams (1.76 ounces) or more of high-fat cheese a day correlated with a lower risk of developing dementia.

A recent summary  of previous studies which concluded that regular reading improved brain connectivity and function, consolidating neural connections and enhancing brain connectivity, while also improving memory and concentration and slowing down cognitive decline.

And a study published just before Christmas found that tea-drinking protects against osteoporosis.

All good things! There’s more on the blog - linked in stories 

#longevityblog #agewell #womenover50
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