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EAT BEANS EVERY DAY & BEST EVER BLACK BEAN SOUP

November 13, 2015 6 Comments

Eat beans every day – that’s the message from Dan Buettner, whose third book on Blue Zones came out earlier this year.  It’s a message I like – beans are cheap, convenient and delicious.  So to discover they’re now, officially, the world’s number one food for longevity was music to my ears. Thanks to Jamie… 

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EAT LESS MEAT AND LIVE LONGER? AND BAKED STUFFED SWEET POTATOES

November 6, 2015 3 Comments

If you’ve read recent headlines, you’d be forgiven for thinking that eating a sausage is tantamount to writing a suicide note. Last week the World Health Organisation placed processed meat in the same carcinogenic category as cigarettes and alcohol. Regular red meat was placed in the category below, making it a ‘probable carcinogen’. Crikey! This… 

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POLYAMINES – THE NEW SECRET WEAPON FOR AGEING WELL & MOROCCAN SPINACH AND CHICKPEAS.

October 16, 2015 21 Comments

The big ageing news in the last week has been polyamines (yes, new to me too!).  Thanks to research from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, headlines about a new ‘wonder anti-ageing diet’ involving polyamines were splashed across several newspapers last week.  I liked the sound of that, but to flesh out these extravagant… 

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WHY WE SHOULD SIT LESS AND FIDGET MORE – WARM SQUASH SALAD

October 2, 2015 4 Comments

If you sit for more than six hours a day, you need to get up – yes, right now!  And yes – that’s six hours in total. And if you think you’re off the hook because you’ve spent an hour in the gym, you need to think again.  New research shows our sedentary lifestyles are… 

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FOODS FOR BREAST CANCER – EASY-PEASY GAZPACHO

September 18, 2015 4 Comments

It’s a sad fact that most of us know someone affected by breast cancer. 1 in 8 women face the prospect of getting breast cancer, making it by far the most common cancer in females.  But medics and scientists now believe diet and life style can play an important role. And some of the most… 

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WHY MUSTARD IS A MUST-HAVE, AND MUSTARD-MAPLE SALMON

July 17, 2015 6 Comments

As a kid, I hated mustard. I couldn’t understand the pre-Sunday lunch ritual of mixing bright yellow powder into a paste with a teeny tiny spoon (does anyone still own a mustard spoon, I wonder?) or the fervour with which my parents would seek out good Dijon on trips to France. But now I get… 

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SHOULD I GO PESCETARIAN? AND PRAWN, PEA AND PEPPER PAELLA

July 12, 2015 Leave a Comment

Bit of a bombshell from my daughters this week when they announced they have gone pescetarian. One has some clearly well-considered thoughts about animal welfare, the other is more concerned about the quality of meat they are served at school (which does sound awful to be honest). I’ve said that I’ll support them in their… 

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CANCER, NUTRITION AND, ER, SOME SUMMER SALAD DRESSINGS

June 12, 2015 4 Comments

I’ve been blind-sided in recent weeks by news that a family member has secondary cancer.  We’re keeping everything crossed but it’s tough news to hear. This, and the cancer treatment that a close friend’s mum is undergoing, has made me keen to know more about the advice given to cancer patients, and their carers, on… 

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IS THE REDUCED CALORIE DIET DEAD? KALE CAESAR SALAD

June 5, 2015 2 Comments

There’s been a lot of talk in recent years about the reduced calorie (RC) diet. Many long-term studies show that a significant reduction in calories (20-40%) promotes longevity.  Scientists aren’t quite sure why it works but think the RC diet tricks the body into thinking famine is imminent.  Your cells then rally and this postpones… 

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SALMON: LET ME COUNT THE WAYS, AND THE EASIEST AFTER-WORK SALMON SALAD

May 30, 2015 1 Comment

If someone says ‘brain food’ what’s the first thing you think of? My guess is that it’s going to be fish – and probably oily fish. And if it’s oily fish, it’s got to be salmon. It’s become synonymous with healthy eating in recent decades. And it’s not just the brain that salmon can help…. 

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There’s a piece in @telegraph online today about There’s a piece in @telegraph online today about Susan’s coaching programme Better Brain Framework. Journalist @msmirandamcminn watched her mother battle dementia for 10 years. Determined to reduce her own dementia risk, Miranda worked with Susan for three months. 

She said, ‘I am convinced that we could all benefit from following this programme…. [it] has given me better clarity than I had at the age of 30”

The article is behind a paywall but we’ll put a link in stories, in case you’re a subscriber or fancy a free trial 

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How many steps are you walking in summer? When it’s warm, it’s tempting to find a shady spot and do very little, we know 

However, can we politely suggest you continue to get your daily steps in? We’ve been enjoying evening ambles and dawn saunters.  Get to the sea, a forest or mountains/hills if you can.

What about that magic 10,000 steps number? After all, recent studies suggest that somewhere around 7,000-8,000 daily steps is perfect for older people, with benefits tailing off after that.
Moreover, everyone now knows that the 10,000 step ‘rule’ was devised by a Japanese marketing company who liked the neatness of the  (untested) 10,000 number.

But it seems that 10,000 steps a day banishes inflamm-aging…. want to know more? It’s all on the blog - link on bio and in stories 

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Lymphatics and longevity - what you need to know Lymphatics and longevity - what you need to know 

The lymphatics are the body’s drainage system: keeping fluids in balance, flushing away toxins, supporting the immune system and removing cellular waste – the build-up of which causes oxidation (rusting!) in the body. If the lymphatic system isn’t operating optimally, we’re more likely to experience chronic inflammation. So many of the conditions linked to ageing – from arthritis to heart disease, dementia to insulin resistance – are rooted in this inflammation.

So, look after your lymphatic system and it will help look after your longevity 

More on the blog agewellproject.com and linked in stories 

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Annabel’s article on the strange and remarkable Annabel’s article on the strange and remarkable effects of place/location on our mental and physical health in August @goodhousekeepinguk with thanks to @definitelymaber 

Read more in Annabel’s latest book The Walking Cure from @bloomsburypublishing 

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We went to Stockholm! And, of course, it didn’t We went to Stockholm! And, of course, it didn’t escape our notice that the Swedes have a fantastically age-well lifestyle and a greater life expectancy than us here in the UK (although only by a year). 

The Nordic diet of foods traditionally eaten in Scandinavia plays a role in this: whole grains, fish and game. I brought some smoked reindeer meat home with me, not sure I would recommend. Vegetables, berries, ferments, oily fish and sea food are all longevity superfoods - we ate some incredible lumpfish roe and oysters while we were there. And Annabel had one of her favourites, nettle soup, not once but twice.

Coffee intake, clean air and the concept of ‘lagom’ - balance - all play a role too. Find the lowdown on the blog agewellproject.com and linked in stories 

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