#746 Nutritional Choices for Healthier Aging

The Staying Young Show

 

Show Title: “Nutritional Choices for Healthier Aging”

Co-Hosts: Judy Gaman, Walter Gaman, Mark Anderson

Guest: None

Segment 1

People are always telling others “You should eat better!” What does that mean? We’re going to take you step by step through the science of good nutrition as it pertains to healthy aging. 

• What happens to the taste buds as we age? The dull, making people want more salty and sugary foods.
• Discuss food options most people reach for as they age. Canned, frozen, processed and convenient foods. How can we turn that around?
• Why being social when you eat is also important. Share a meal.
• Micro and Macronutrients and the role they play in sarcopenia (Stay Young Shakes)

American born today averages 78.2 years. But this year, over 70,000 Americans have reached their 100th birthday

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TAKE THE SURVEY!!!! Stay Young America.com Facebook (Stay Young Media Group), website (Stayyoungamerica.com, and iTunes, call us 844-well 100 Follow us on Twitter @StayYoungMedia. When we come back, what the blue zones have figured out. Why these people are living so long.

Segment 2

 

IMMORTAL MINUTE

This whole hour we are talking about nutrition and aging. Nutrition plays a huge role in not just how long we live, but the quality of those years.

• Blue Zones - characteristic lifestyles and the environments of the world's longest-lived people.

According to www.Bluezones.com these areas are:

Barbagia region of Sardinia – Mountainous highlands of inner Sardinia with the world’s highest concentration of male centenarians.

Ikaria, Greece – Aegean Island with one of the world’s lowest rates of middle age mortality and the lowest rates of dementia.

Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica – World’s lowest rates of middle age mortality, second highest concentration of male centenarians.

Seventh Day Adventists – Highest concentration is around Loma Linda, California. They live 10 years longer than their North American counterparts.

Okinawa, Japan – Females over 70 are the longest-lived population in the world.

• Mediterranean diet –

Eating primarily plant-based foods, such as fruits and vegetables, whole grains, legumes and nuts

Replacing butter with olive oil

Flavor with herbs and spices not salt

Eating fish and poultry at least twice a week

Red meat to no more than a few times a month

(Most blue zones, only eat meat once a week on average)

• Dietary fiber, low-glycemic carbohydrates, resveratrol and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA)) may decrease glycemic spikes, improve plasma cholesterol or triglycerides levels. This means less dementia

Tease 20 sec. – TAKE THE SURVEY!!!!   www.stayyoungamerica.com SHOUT OUT TO MILITARY, Facebook (stay young media group) , download podcasts – follow us on twitter @StayYoungMedia coming up - Coming up – the importance of a healthy gut microbiome.  

Segment 3

You are what you eat. This whole hour is about what to eat and what not to eat if you want to live a long and healthy life

• Importance of a healthy gut microbiome. Prebiotics and probiotics improve gut health, thus warding off disease and improving immunity
• Avoid artificial sweeteners
• Drink more water. ½ your body weight number in ounces. EX: if you weigh 150 lbs, you need 75 oz. of water
• Avoid caffeine after 2pm

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Exit – 30 sec. Coming up – Medical Mania trivia. Your chance to check your medical knowledge.

Segment 4 –

 

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Medical Mania Trivia – Becky Elder one of the authors of Red Thong Strong (If she’s good, invite her back for a show as a guest)

 

1.) If you want to remember something, which should you do: type it or hand write it?

A. Research from Indiana University found that in order to remember something, you should handwrite notes because it takes more brain power. 

2.) Eating out regularly for either dinner or breakfast can increase your risk of obesity by what percentage? 25, 57, 100?

A. 100%. Eating out regularly doubles your risk for both obesity and heart disease

3.) True of false. Flatulence relief (aka farting) is good sing your blood pressure is healthy.

A. True. hydrogen sulphide, the gas in flatulence is also the same gas that relaxes blood vessels. In mice, those with lower levels of hydrogen sulphide, had a 20% higher blood pressure reading.

4.) One can of soda a day increases your risk of diabetes by what percentage: 5, 17, 22

A. 22%.

5.) Are there more cases of skin cancer cases from indoor tanning or more cases of lung cancer from smoking?

A. Skin cancer from indoor tanning. Researchers estimated that about 419,000 cases of basal and squamous cell carcinoma and almost 11,000 cases of melanoma each year are attributable to indoor tanning. (compared to 363,000 lung cancer/smoking)

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