Whole Body Reset
Diet Cookbook
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How People in Their Mid-Forties and Older Should Think About Food.
Gaining Weight at Midlife Is Common, But Its Not Inevitable.
200+ Easy-To-Follow Recipes, Designed For the Whole Family.
2 Book Combo
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Patricia Symonette
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Nutritional science is very complicated and, like everything based on biology, it concerns many hypotheses or results that still need confirmation. Nowadays, miracles are promised without any scruple, regardless of how this can affect the quality of life and the hopes of many sick people.
Furthermore, as we age, our metabolism and therefore our energy requirements are reduced, without a parallel reduction in nutrient requirements: indeed, in some cases (for example calcium and vitamin D) these can even increase! If you are no longer a young boy, then, it is important that you eat nutritious, alkaline foods and this diet is the simplest way to "eliminate" nutrient-free calories from your life. This book will give you an edge to slow down or reverse the course of any diseases that afflict you; however, you should remember that diets cannot replace traditional medical treatments, but only complement them.
The state of health of each of us is regulated by external factors, among which the most influential is the lifestyle: what we eat is extremely important, and the plant-based diet seems to be the optimal choice to preserve our health, allowing us to age well.
There are those who say that this is not the case, that you need to eat a little bit of everything. However, studies conducted on the relationship between nutrition and health tell us that people who follow a vegan diet have the lowest risk of serious diseases such as overweight/obesity, diabetes, and hypertension: conditions which in turn represent important risk factors for cardiovascular diseases and dementia. Those who follow a vegan diet are also better protected against some types of cancers, in particular those of the male and female sexual apparatus.
We also know that anything that increases the risk of disease is also capable, once a certain disease has taken hold, to aggravate its course. Let's take cigarette smoking as an example: in those who have already had a heart attack due to cigarette smoking, continuing to smoke means aggravating those lesions to the coronary arteries that have already created damage. The same reasoning applies to the diet: if a certain diet favors the onset of a disease, then continuing to follow that same diet after the disease has appeared means adding fuel to the fire. On the other hand, if a certain diet is protective against a disease, then adopting that diet even after the disease has appeared equals throwing water on the fire.
This book is a sincere book, it will allow you to start a vegan diet, as alkaline and low in fat as possible, which proves to be effective as a therapeutic measure to be combined with traditional therapies for some metabolic diseases such as overweight-obesity and diabetes mellitus.
CHAPTER 1:
The aging of an individual is the result of the effects on the body of time passing. It is characterized by a progressive impairment of the functionality of the various organs and systems. However, the evolution of society and medical-scientific knowledge has increased life expectancy, and therefore the "mature" life span, whereas the overlap of one or more pathologies is capable of causing a sudden acceleration of this process.
The elderly age, which begins at 60, is divided into further age groups. We define young elderly as people aged between 60 and 69, elderly as people aged between 70 and 79 and great elderly as people who are over 80 years old. (Forman 1992). However, more recently, a new classification (Zizza 2009) that makes each age group move forward by 5 years has been created.
Nevertheless, the chronological age does not faithfully reflect the extreme variability of the biological processes that characterize aging: in addition to being genetically programmed, aging comes in turn from the environment and lifestyle. It, therefore, appears more useful to refer to the biological age, that is to say, the age that an individual actually demonstrates, regardless of the chronological age, and which is precisely the result of all the variables that act synergistically on an organism that is aging.
Aging begins when the growth processes are completed, therefore already at 30 years of age. Although genetically programmed, this process can be influenced by non-genetic factors. Basically, if our tissues are genetically programmed to develop a progressive loss of function over time, all the external factors capable of slowing this loss will in fact be able to slow down the arrival of old age and widen the gap between chronological age and biological age.
Among the most significant changes that affect the organs, we must remember those affecting the cardiorespiratory system which involves a reduced resistance to effort, those affecting the digestive system, which leads to the prolongation of digestion times, constipation, and alterations in the absorption of some nutrients such as vitamin B12, and those affecting the bone, which compromises its strength, increasing the risk of fractures and modifying posture.
Brain aging leads to a loss of cognitive functions that do not, however, compromise the ability to maintain independence in life. Yet, the elderly perceive this physiological loss of functionality as a handicap that forces them to take notes so as not to forget things and to perform different tasks one at a time and no longer at the same time as they were able to do when they were young.
Finally, aging involves the modification of body composition, with the loss of lean mass (muscles) and an increase in fat mass (adipose tissue). This happens not only in people who gain weight as they age but also in those who maintain constant body weight. This phenomenon is on the one hand highly influenced by physical activity, which is able, up to a certain point, to counteract the loss of cellular mass from the muscle, but a diet with an adequate amount of vegetable protein is equally important.