Most people want to extend their lifespan, but shouldn’t we think about extending our healthspan first? Healthspan, according to Merriam-Webster, is the length of time that you are healthy—not just alive. Extending our healthspan means compressing our worst health into the shortest and latest possible time in our lifespan. Spending most of our time able to enjoy what we love and less …
A horrible warning.
Too much of a good thing is still too much. With the cold, wet weather and the fact that the gyms and the pools are closed, I had been running most days. At the beginning of this year I had a goal to do 2020 km of running or skiing for 2020. We had a great ski season, but I …
Habits: 3 Ways your eating habits change your future.
I was listening to a podcast about changing your habits and someone, sorry I can’t remember who, said, “Bad habits take from your future, good habits take from the present moment.” Brilliant. We aren’t great at ignoring the immediate rewards of a bad habit, so we often borrow from our future. Our good habits don’t often come with an immediate …
Plants & Protein
Anyone who eats an animal-free diet has heard the following words, “Where do you get your protein?” I’m not going to answer that now because I have done many times before, here and here and here. Where is not really the question, because it turns out that protein is in so many foods. In fact, The Harvard T.H.Chan School of …
Health is more than what you do
Personal health is on everyone’s mind right now. Not that long ago we didn’t think about infectious disease and many people didn’t think much about chronic disease either. I make a few assumptions about you when I write these blog posts. I assume that you are safe, that you have a home, money to buy food, that you are educated …
Range
There is now (almost) a complete range of products that satisfy anyone’s need for a burger. From Very Good Butcher, Beyond Meat to Memphis Meats, you soon will be able to choose from plant-based burger, a veggie burger that cooks and bleeds like meat, to a real meat burger with no factory farms or slaughterhouses. There is also a complete …
Vitamin K aka Kale
Vitamin K deficiency isn’t something we hear about. In fact, any news about Vitamin K is pretty rare. Vitamin K is actually two vitamins. K1 is important for blood clotting, and K2 is important for keeping our bones healthy, regulating cell growth, and preventing the calcification of our arteries, which is critical for preventing heart disease. In a study of …
Fitness vs Age? 5 tips to feel younger.
When it comes to ageing some of the expected decline may be due more to lifestyle habits and less to do with getting older. Here are 5 ways to feel younger for a longer time. Sleep. 7-9 hours a night is critical for keeping our brain functioning properly. If your brain isn’t functioning, nothing is going to work. Sleep cleans …
How to stay young. 2 types of fitness that prevent ageing.
Exploring the changes in fitness that come with ageing. Is it age or is it due to lack of activity? In this episode of Ageing Ungracefully my co-host, Paul Sullivan and I explore what fitness changes are inevitable and what can be slowed with lifestyle. When people talk about fitness what exactly do they mean? The two types of fitness …
Vegan, Chocolate Chip, Peanut Butter, Oatmeal Cookies.
It’s National Chocolate Chip Day! I didn’t even know that was a day. What could be better for Chocolate Chip day than cookies? Here is a quick and easy cookie recipe that is great with chocolate chips. Ingredients: 1/2 cup Vegan Butter1 cup Natural Sugar1 cup Natural Crunchy Peanut Butter1 tsp Vanilla Extract1 1/2 cups Organic Flour1/2 cup Organic Oatmeal1 …