Lifestyle choices made in your 20s can impact your heart health in your 40s

Lifestyle choices made in your 20s can impact your heart health in your 40s


From this study it looks like I did a couple of things right but a lot of things wrong and I am paying for it now. The good thing I did was that I never smoked. I always thought it was gross and a waste of money. the other good thing I did for my body but not as much for my social life was to no drink alcohol in excess. I can barely finish one drink if I go out to a bar. But the exercise part... not so good. the 3 times I joined a gym where the 3 times the gym changed ownership or I lost a job or got too busy with a new job and didn't go. One of my biggest regrets now is that I didn't get into a habit of regular exercise when I was young to the point of it just being a part of my schedule. Now I can barely muster enough energy to do half of what I want to do. The other thing I wish I had done years ago was eat better... still struggling with that.... cravings keep getting the best of me. I guess for people that drink alcohol they put their cravings into the drink instead of the food. Either way neither of these practices are good.

I always feel like I have an angel sitting on one shoulder and a devil sitting on the other and the two of them are battling it out over what I should eat. The Devil says eat that fatty beef and cheese and the angel says eat some leafy greens. Guess who wins out most of the time.... well I guess you could say I am no Angel in the food department. I want to do better but can't seem to keep up on just eating healthy. I wish I could just turn off a crappy food craving switch and adjust it to only good things for me. Some people can do it but I haven't figured out how to be one of those people yet. But I am working on it. As usual a work in progress.

Stop the Cycle of Obesity

This is a very powerful video about the influence of parental control on obesity in children who become obese adults.

When I was a kid food was love to my mother. When she wanted to make me happy she made cookies or some other kind of favourite food. I love food but interesting that when I was a kid I was picky and didn't like everything but my mother always wanted me to eat stuff. Not always healthy but she really didn't know any better.

Parents need to be educated. When kids are small they have no control over what they eat other than to refuse eating things they don't like. Parents need to be educated on nutrition and the importance of giving your children the best foods to give them a healthy start in life.

My parents were hard working people with not a lot of money and not a lot of time to spend with my brother and I except at dinner times. Family time was usually spent involving food. I wonder if things would have been different if the focus was on healthy food and activity. I guess I will never know now that they are both gone.

Top 12 superfoods for 2012

Top 12 superfoods for 2012


I bet you have never heard of some of these foods and unless you live in Australia you probably aren't going to find Kangaroo meat at your local market..... but you can choose some of these things like Avocado, Pomegranate, chick peas etc.

Quinoa is now widely available... what is it? It's what they call an Ancient Grain. It's kind of like making tiny rice.. you cook it for about 20 minutes and it has kind of a nutty taste. You can have it cold or hot and mix sweet and savoury things into it like cranberries or veggies.

Farro is also an old Italian Grain like pasta but with a higher nutritional content than regular pasta.

Pick one thing on this list that you have never tried and do an experiment. Find it in your local grocery store and then try and find a recipe to use it and see if you like it and can adopt it into your regular diet.

I had my avocado yesterday when I made some fajita style tacos... who knew Guacamole was so good for you.