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WOULD YOU GIVE UP CARBS FOR A HEALTHY OLD AGE? AND MASSAGED KALE SALAD

September 15, 2017 4 Comments

Where do you fall on the carb-spectrum? Can’t get enough of them, haven’t touched one since 1994 or somewhere inbetween? Annabel and I definitely love carbs, but – since starting our Age Well journey – they’ve been wholegrain ones rather than refined. We’ve read well-researched report after well-researched report telling us that wholegrain carbohydrate will… 

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HOW TO AVOID RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS – SPAGHETTI WITH SARDINES

September 8, 2017 10 Comments

At Kale & Cocoa we talk a lot about health span. It’s an inelegant, clunky word referring to how long we live a healthy life, as opposed to how long we actually live (referred to as life span). We believe that health span is far more important than life span. As our regular readers know,… 

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WALK FASTER, EAT MORE PLANTS AND LOOK AFTER YOUR TEETH (AGAIN) – WHAT WE LEARNT THIS SUMMER

September 1, 2017 8 Comments

Much as I love summer, and I do ADORE summer, I relish the sense of a new beginning that September brings. That back-to-school, new-pencil-case feeling inspires new resolutions and a fresh sense of purpose. And for Kale & Cocoa, it means hitting refresh on our ‘Age Well’ intentions. For K&C, Annabel and I read hundreds… 

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HOW TO AGE WELL THIS AUGUST – AND CITRUS FISH BAKE

August 1, 2017 6 Comments

It’s August  and I hope you’re getting a break. More and more evidence suggests that taking a break to relax and recharge is a vital weapon in the battle to age well. A joint study by the Universities of California and Harvard found that a holiday reduces genetic markers linked to stress and the quantity… 

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HOW TO LIVE HAPPILY EVER LAUGHTER & FARRO SALAD WITH EGGS AND SMOKED MACKEREL

July 21, 2017 8 Comments

A few weeks ago I had dinner with one of the UK’s kings of comedy. Charlie Higson, writer, producer and comedian in shows like Saturday Live, the Harry Enfield Programme, Reeves and Mortimer and The Fast Show, had us all in stitches. After a while, we were laughing before Charlie even opened his mouth, almost… 

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WHY WE LOVE LONGEVITY HOTSPOTS – TOMATO AND MOZZARELLA SALAD

July 14, 2017 13 Comments

Intrigued by the world’s longevity hotspots? So are we. I’m particularly interested in the so-called Blue Zones because their inhabitants never take supplements (or join gyms!) and yet they have fabulously long, disease-free lives by doing very ordinary things. Which means we can too. Every so often a new longevity hot spot or blue zone… 

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WHY A LINE OF FLOSS WILL KEEP YOU IN GOOD HEALTH – COURGETTE, LEEK & GRUYERE FRITTATA

June 23, 2017 8 Comments

As I reclined in the dental chair yesterday (jaws forcibly widened, blood drooling from my mouth, metal implements clamped to my molars), my dentist decided it was time I learned about the growing link between gum health and – er, death. Gum health, she informed me, is now thought to be a trigger for heart… 

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CAN A KIWI FRUIT HELP YOU SLEEP? PEACH AND MOZARELLA SALAD WITH SMOKED ALMOND PESTO

June 16, 2017 8 Comments

Teenagers everywhere are pushing through, red-eyed and exhausted, to the end of exam period (in the UK, at any rate). My eighteen-year old daughter is no different. With a head full of hay fever, she spends her days revising before collapsing into a night of inadequate sleep and waking at dawn as the light streams… 

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WHY YOU NEED TO DO MORE EXERCISE & GLAZED AUBERGINE CHIPS

May 26, 2017 10 Comments

I’ll confess right away: my life has become increasingly sedentary.  The life of most writers is a sedentary one. I walk every day, regularly clocking up between 10 and 20,000 steps.  But this, it turns out, is not enough.  According to recent research from America’s Brigham Young University I might as well be slouching in… 

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WHY YOU NEED TO NURTURE YOUR LOVED ONES: ONE-POT COD WITH RED VEGETABLES

May 19, 2017 8 Comments

Yesterday I visited a friend whose Easter was spent battling for the life of her son.  Not in a sophisticated London hospital but on a remote African island. Her twelve-year old son’s appendix burst somewhere between Madagascar and a tiny island, reachable only by a three hour choppy boat ride.  The island had no hospital,… 

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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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