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The Age Defying Lifestyle
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Primary Part of Holistic Health is Nutrition– How to read and use Nutrition Labels on products and menus to drop weight, inches, and years. The real culprits to having age-defying holistic health is what isn’t listed on the Nutrition Label.
In December of 2024, we will be launching a NEW Holistic Health Website (https://agedefyinglifestyle.com/) to provide information for people to achieve an Age-Defying Lifestyle. This site is tailored for people to take charge of their health and fitness where they can avoid some of the ravages of aging and be able to enjoy their life that they work decades establishing.
While there’s nothing we can do about changing the calendar, you can have a direct impact on how we age over those years. With simple nutrition, fitness, and activity, we can remain healthy and active to maintain an active lifestyle in our mid-30’s and 40’s. This is the best 401(k) Health plan anyone can invest in just by doing what Ray Lewis stated about Greatness- Greatness is a lot of small things done well!
Improving Your Nutrition about how to read Nutrition Labels
We all have been in clothing stores and browsing through catalogs that arrive in spring and fall and see how those great clothes look on the models and mannequins to only put them on at home and not see the same results. Before you go and hit the gym and start sweating, let’s approach your health holistically with your nutrition first that accounts for 80- percent (80%) of getting into better health and shape in weeks instead of months.
If you know how to read Nutrition Labels, you can turn your body into a calorie-burning juggernaut that allows you to drop your weight, inches, and years off your appearance in weeks. The key is to determine from nutrition labels the culprits you are facing to your inability to get into better shape by focusing on your diet. Below is my actual Waistline Chart that I kept starting on November 28th, 2014. I have maintain a 29.0- inch waistline now going on 10- years:
Believe me, it is better to make some minor changes to your diet to drop weight, inches, and years than hitting the gym for hours during the week and not see results. We use the gym for strength training and toning instead of weight loss.
Nutrition labels have some helpful information on them for maintaining a healthy diet, but there are some harmful components that aren’t listed on the label that make weight loss impossible.
What is important to know is NOT all calories, carbohydrates, or fats can be considered equal when it comes to how our bodies metabolize our food. There are three (3) healthy carbohydrates and fats that are not listed on the nutrition label that you need to maintain your health and fitness. But there is one class of carbohydrate that is NOT listed on the Nutrition Label that makes weight lost impossible that you need to know about.
The Unlisted Healthy Components on Nutrition Labels
The healthy fats are your Monounsaturated (Omega-3) and Polyunsaturated (Omega-6) Fats. These provide your cardiovascular health, lower LDL cholesterol and glucose readings, to improve your cognitive function, keep skin looking younger with natural oils, reduce joint inflammation, and help with weight lost.
Not all Carbohydrates can be considered harmful to your holistic health. There has been an uptick in cardiovascular diseases due to the fact that people are eliminating all carbohydrates from the diet thinking all carbs are the same. Complex carbohydrates are fiber based foods that are essential to our heart health and cognitive function. We cannot and should not treat all carbohydrates the same.
We need a diet high in proper protein and fiber to maintain our overall holistic health both for our heart and cognitive function. Anyone that is eliminating all carbohydrates from their diet is jeopardizing their health and fitness. A low carbohydrate diet is beneficial if you can eliminate the harmful carbs (simple carbs) that lead to weight gain, high cholesterol, glucose and high triglycerides reading. These are factors your doctor preaches to you about to lower your annual physical numbers.
The Unlisted Culprits on Nutrition Labels
There is one culprit that is NOT listed on the nutrition labels that are your main obstacle to losing weight and getting into better shape to wear those great fashions you see in stores and catalogs. This one culprit is referred to as the hidden sugars consisting of simple carbohydrates that are your starches. If you look on the nutrition label for simple carbs and starches, they are NOT listed as your starches.
If you want your body to do the hard work for you in your efforts to drop weight and get into better shape, including looking younger, learn how to read nutrition labels on products at your grocery store or off menu at your favorite restaurants. You want the benefits of monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats, but eliminate those simple carbs (your starches).
Comparing Nutrition Labels
The objective in reading the nutrition label is to find what factors contribute to the calorie count. What you are trying to accomplish is to take advantage of the healthy components that are great tasting and satisfying that allows your body to metabolize calories as energy instead of the disadvantage of hidden sugars. These are your simple carbs consisting of starches that your body cannot use as energy, but store instead as fat.
Below is an example of two nutrition labels, one for a sweet potato and the other one for an Idaho Potato. From the Sugar Buster Diet, we know sweet potatoes are a healthy choice over an Idaho Potato. I will show you the reason why this is true with a simple analysis done to determine how the body metabolizes each with a metabolic weight factor, the lower metabolic weight factor the better below 3.25:
Here is what is surprising between the two nutrition labels. The sugar for the sweet potato is 7 grams compared with 1 gram of the Idaho potato, but look at the higher metabolic number for the Idaho Potato. You can’t just go off the sugar, because all sugar like calories and carbs aren’t created equal.
All the other data is pretty close except for the sugar data. What the Sugar Buster Diet states is that the sweet potato is a healthier choice because what type of sugar the sweet potato consists of. What makes the Idaho Potato a less healthy choice is for the hidden sugar, or starches.
Then if you add toppings to the Idaho Potato, like sour cream, the metabolic weight factor can exceed 6.25.
Dietitians consider the sweet potato and pinto beans the perfect foods. The sweet potato has a metabolic weight factor of 2.778 while pinto beans have a metabolic weight factor of 1.97. The closer to the metabolic weight factor of ONE you can get the healthier the food selection.
Also the foods with a metabolic weight factor below 3.25 are among the foods that the Alzheimer’s Association consider foods that help prevent the onset of dementia and Alzheimer’s that are considered the dreaded diseases that rob people of their retirement years. Both dementia and Alzheimer’s are affecting younger people over their forties even.
Your Fitness Factor
While diet accounts for 80- percent (80%) for your health, you want to include a weekly fitness program that should consist of Cardiovascular-Aerobics-Strength Training Exercise Routine (CASTER) that accounts for 10 percent of your fitness. The remaining 10- percent is maintaining an active lifestyle with hobbies, sports, and outdoor events.
You use your diet to lose weight and your fitness training for strengthening and toning. But there is a huge benefit in strength training in that it allows your muscles to release a natural growth hormone that contains collagen for healthier joints and younger looking skin. If you are over 40, younger looking skin and active lifestyle is a major factor to maintain.
The evidence of having a holistic approach to your health and fitness is having an age-defying lifestyle where you can defy your age not just by years, but by decades. Below, I did a photoshoot for my sports apparel that I model at the age 67. This photograph was taken in September of 2024 in our hangar. I have the health and fitness that I had in my mid-30’s at age 67.
Another Age-Defying Lifestyle to Add to Your Activities
Developing a trade skill as a hobby before you retire can provide you with an active lifestyle, first and foremost, but a hobby can also be a second career that you can do on your schedule. I attended welding classes at a local VOTECH College before I retired where I can spend 3-to-4 days a week in my shop welding.
The shop drawings that I do help keep my mathematics skills current that improve my cognitive functions. Don’t neglect picking up a trade skill before retiring to keep an active lifestyle.
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