So, doctors and researchers in many studies and observations of centenarians came to the conclusion that they have less than others, manifested a variety of deterioration of the brain. They almost did not suffer from memory disorders, attention and thought processes.

According to American scientists frequent consumption of soy protein results in accelerated destruction of brain cells. Older people who are actively involved in your eating tofu, sharply reduced the level of memory and other mental processes, as compared with those people who this product is excluded.

According to scientists, fully balanced diet helps slow the aging brain, to prolong active life. A very important condition for such a diet is the regular consumption of antioxidants. Young people have antioxidants in the cells themselves, but with age, their activity is greatly reduced, and the aging process accelerates. Gradually, the regulation violated the functioning of cells in the body are manifested pathological features senile. Natural antioxidants now can be used as food supplements or, for example, in the form of seafood.

Diet of centenarians is extremely simple. It includes only a few main principles:
- you should reduced food (the elder you become);
- pay attention to low-calorie and low fat products;
- eat meat no more than twice a week;
- regularly have to adhere to the Japanese diet – the week when the power is limited to rice, fish and fresh vegetables;
- this diet for weight loss including vitamins A, C and E;
- you should learn from the experience of Switzerland and eat more high-quality cheese, yogurt;
- before you go to bed, you can drink a glass of red dry wine.

The Cost of Our Food Should be Measured in the Total food, Health Care, Energy, and Environmental Costs of What We Choose to Eat.Looked at this way, it is insane how much we are paying and future generations will be paying for our unhealthy diet pleasures. Meanwhile, half the world is starving and the other half remain overfed.

It is remarkable that the American public, as tight as money is, is so fearful about some unexpected health crisis popping up, that we are willing to pay hundreds and even thousands of dollars per family each month for health insurance, which may get cancelled at the last moment anyway. This is a perfect example of how we have been conditioned to fear things we don’t understand.

Rather than taking the time to educate ourselves on how to eat to stay both thin and well, we allow ourselves to be manipulated by our fear of some nameless health catastrophe. And then, overcharged for high-tech solutions that treat only our symptoms. (To be fair to doctors, they can’t control what we eat.)

And yet, for all the “protection money” we spend, we are unwilling in most cases to do the things we are told by public health agencies that will prevent many of the most feared diseases. We pay exorbitant charges for health care insurance rather than correct our personal risk factors.

This being January, the month when most Americans decide to get serious about dieting for a week or two, it may be appropriate to look at how insane our dietary habits are.

The diseases that trouble us the most are caused by the junk we eat. Most of them can be prevented by correcting our diet–once and for all–and learning to ignore temptation. We should recognize slick advertisers of unhealthy foods as the Devil’s own representatives–and avoid their recommendations like the plague.

What we do instead, with the encouragement of our medical providers, is spend $70-100+ per month for a statin drug to allow us to go on eating bacon and eggs, meats, and ice cream, without worrying about our cholesterol levels. Would it not be simpler and healthier–and cheaper!–to stop eating extra cholesterol? But no, life in modern America wouldn’t be worth living without being free to graze on all the delectable goodies that food chemists concoct for us each day–or so we appear to think.

So, because 68% of Americans are overweight, which should be an easy problem to remedy with a little self-discipline, we are prone to become diabetic, suffer from cardiovascular disease, and several cancers. This we know. What are we going to do about it this year? Another bout with the Atkins diet? Or will it be some new diet that is guaranteed to be a marketing success and a weight loss failure?

Weight loss is generally viewed as a simple math problem. Usually, we’re given the old choice: We’ve either got to exercise a lot more or eat a lot less, but most dieters want to do neither one.

There is, however another option that most of us ignore with a passion. And that is changing WHAT we eat rather than limiting how much we eat. Specifically, we’re talking about cutting out meats, eggs, and milk products.

That is the key that few of us want to use to unlock the weight loss riddle. More than being a problem of eating too much, weight gain is caused by eating the wrong kind of foods. Anthropologists point out that our digestive systems are not set up to be carnivorous. But since McDonald’s and Pizza Huts even provide the food service in many public schools now–and have for some time–most of us find it hard to imagine life worth living without fast foods, fried foods, and junk snack foods.

We have been trained to eat the wrong foods and to expect someone else to solve the medical problems this creates. (And now, it looks like we will all be forced to buy health care insurance, whether we want it or not.)

Health care, as we currently see it practiced, is not the answer, though.

Until we are each able to see the part we play in allowing ourselves to be manipulated by advertisers to eat unnatural, unhealthy foods, we will not be ready to take the first step to permanent weight loss. Short term changes in what we eat, diet pills, and all the new crop of diet books will not produce the desired results until we learn to see how we have been duped by food processors and our government-subsidized industrial system of farming.

We need real food, grown in healthy soils, not colorful boxes of factory-farmed “foods” with minimal nutrients and maximal flavor additives. And, we need to stop eating animals and their by-products. The alternative is to continue to pay outrageous prices for continuing to eat as we do.

One option to the unrealistic expectation of converting the nation to organic farming methods overnight is to encourage everyone to supplement their diet with high-quality vitamin and mineral supplements. It makes sense that much of our overeating is an unconscious urge to get the vital nutrients that should be in our food but aren’t, due to depleted soils.

If it seems extreme to suggest we stop eating meat, other animal products(milk, etc.), and processed foods, don’t you think open-heart surgery, knee and hip replacements, kidney dialysis on a regular basis, chemotherapy, and Alzheimer’s Disease are extreme, too? Countries where the populations live on simple, naturally grown foods, with little meat in their diets rarely get the diseases we do. We should learn from them.

If, as 45-year cancer researcher T. Colin Campbell tells us, our diet is responsible for 97% of the diseases we get, then it is up to us to stop offering ourselves up as prey for the health care industry. Change your diet and you can change your medical fate.

The irony of this whole milieu of sickness, obesity, and high health care costs is that we are doing it to ourselves by what we choose to eat. As soon as we realize that fact, we can start doing something to reduce our weight and our health care expenses.

Proper education about the connection between acne and diet will change the life of someone struggling with acne and pimple breakouts. There are a lot of rumors and wives tales about what you should and should not eat but what does science and research say?

I mention this article as the new truth about acne because a lot of the information online that I have studied is a couple years old. Research on skin care is being done constantly so there may be information here that you have not heard of before.

First, we have foods that are scientifically proven to cause acne and at this point the only foods proven to induce acne are dairy products. Dairy products include milk, cheese, sour cream, ice cream and process foods that contain dairy products. Dairy food items induce pimples due to the hormones they. This milk was intended for a baby cow to grow up fast. Many people get pimples as a result of these hormones. If people were to leave dairy out of their diet they would most likely experience an improvement in their acne.

Next we have foods that are suspect but reports are inconclusive. These are the foods that have high levels of sugar and fat:

- Cakes
- Cookies
- French fries
- Potato chips
- Onion rings
- More…

Last, we have foods items that are thought to be beneficial for skin improvement. These foods items include:

Carrot Juice – Drink 3 cups per day. Thought that the Vitamin A is good for the skin

Cucumbers – Drink 4-5 8oz. cups daily for seven days. Cleans the circulatory and lymphatic systems.

Molasses – Consume 2tsp with Sulfur daily. Blood cleanser.

Fiber – A high fiber diet in addition to an appropriate amount of water being consumed each day will shorten transit time. This will prevent food from getting old in the colon and transferring toxins to the blood stream.

Teas – There are a number of teas that people say they work for them. They are:

- Aloe
- Burdock
- Calendula
- Chickweed
- Dandelion
- Red clover
- White oak bark
- Yellow dock
- Cayenne
- Echinacea
- Ginseng
- Sarsaparilla
- Valerian

There is a group of people that think a pure diet and one that will aid in the purification or detoxification of the body will help prevent acne. A diet like this would consist of whole grains, fruits, vegetables, seeds, nuts and beans. This is a diet that will be high in fiber, antioxidants and will be free of preservatives, hormones and other food additives that some think would build up toxins in your body that cause acne outbreaks.

My personal experience is that I am a vegetarian and I never have a significant flare up anymore. This was my experience when I eliminated dairy from my diet. When I do get a pimple it coincides with the consumption of excessive sugar or fat. I have also noticed that I may get a pimple if I have not slept enough or am experiencing prolonged stress.

In conclusion, there is no question but that acne and diet have an inseparable connection. Foods can be categorized in a relationship to acne as definitely causing it, being thought to cause it, and preventing acne. I do hope that you give removing dairy from your diet serious consideration.

In 1933 the Time Magazine announced the death of a man Li Ching-Yun a Chinese herbalist who lived his entire life selling plants and spent most of his time in the mountains of Tibet.

What possessed this man so special that his death was announced a few thousand miles away in a newspaper of the United States as prestigious as the Time Magazine?

He was a practitioner of Tao and other disciplines of meditation; he was advised military and martial arts instructor for the Chinese government but the most important is that he died at the age of 256 years! He had survived 23 women (that he all have buried) and would have left a progeny of 180 children when he died in May 6, 1933.

Already the fact of living over 250 years is more than respectable, but 23 women to survive, then it really becomes a mission impossible (it was an easy one)!

It would be born in 1677 but some other sources suggest 1736, but it is certain that at the time of his birth records and other authentic documents didn’t already exist and even less in China.

What was his secret?

His own answer in several interviews during his long life was:

“Keep a quiet heart,

You sit like a turtle,

You walk as quickly as a dove,

And you sit back like a dog. ”

His diet was essentially based on rice and crops like ginger and a much unknown plant: the Centella Asiatica (Gotu Kola).

Nicknamed “the herb of the tiger and the elephant” because the wounded animals are rolling in, to heal their injuries; This plant enjoys an outstanding reputation in India and China. This reputation is largely due to its properties on the regeneration of tissues and its actions on the nervous system. More recently some research focuses specifically on the effectiveness of the plant for problems of venous insufficiency and skin problems.

The Centella is usually eaten in salads; the juice of the leaves is also used to combat hypertension, and is also used as a tonic.

Do not rush in the first herbalist shop to buy this plant to make your salad because you cannot get it fresh in Europe. You’ll find it in several products to fight against the cellulite and in some dermatological creams; some scientists also say that the Centella has aphrodisiac effects and it’s a great antioxidant!

I think this man through his story (even if it is partially exact), transmit us the secrets of longevity which are summarized through his words which we can understand as:

Think positive, keep the stress out of your life, do some regular exercise, sleep enough and eat mostly natural products growing in the earth.