Healthy living tips

Healthy living tips is about easy, delicious ways to be well, and stay that way.

There is a false notion that wholesome food is not very attractive, certainly not tasty but, yes, if you bully me, I suppose I must.


Nothing could be further from the truth. Healthy food is good food.

And mostly it tastes good because it is good! And if it doesn't (for example, tofu, which is very bland) then dickey it up with garlic, or ginger, or herbs, or Garam Masala. Delicious!

Slow food

The term slow food is obviously a take on fast food; another way of living where we savour each moment and every mouthful.

And whilst it's enjoyed slowly, here we choose only recipes that can be made fast; make it quickly and eat is leisurely.

Here at Healthy Living Tips we are intent on helping you make the Right Choices ...

"Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal."

- Arthur C. Clarke

To be blunt, healthy living is really just about following the laws of nature, simply because there is indeed no appeal. Those who refuse will pay the ultimately penalty; pain, misery and multitudes of visits to doctors, chiropractors and dentists too. An early demise is often their lot. 

"Those who will not hear, must feel."

- Dutch proverb

This page was last updated by Dr Barrie Lewis on 6th May, 2021.

And so it is.

Exercise too is vital; whether you walk or cycle, swim or skip, is entirely a personal preference, but do something. Couch potatoes have only pain, bucket loads of pills and dementia to look forward to.

You have two choice on the subject of walking, one from our chiropractic help site, but the second is highly recommended too.

A photo of the whale trail benefits for the whole family is a number one healthy living tip.

Healthy living tips is also about a healthy distribution of the hours in your day. Exercise takes time.

So, I'm going to take a liberty. My first healthy living tip is to consider our walking benefits page. In the first instance it is the simplest way of getting raised blood glucose down and secondly increased blood flow to every part of the body.

Those who walk regularly are far less likely to get osteoporosis and even the nasty neurodegenerative diseases; it's all about blood flow.

Along with cycling and swimming, walking is a very good place to start. When you sing you begin with doh ray me, to be healthier you begin with around the block, bicycle and the pool. 

So does cooking nutritious food take time. Reading too, spending a few moments with God each day, talking to the kids; we either spend time doing these things, or we waste even more time visiting the doctor, the chiropractor and the psychologist.

A good start is to make a weekly visit to the fresh fruit and vegetable market, preferably by bike if it's within reach. Just seeing those delicious mushrooms and shiny purple aubergines makes it worthwhile; along with the garden this is where I get excited about good food and become more willing to make the time.

Fresh food from the markets is all about healthy living.

Healthy Living Tips is all about delicious meals. Often it may be slow food, but munching into an apple, frying up a bunch of mushrooms and drinking a glass of clean water really takes no time at all.

Our slogan: SLOW FOOD, made fast.

HEALTHY LIVING TIPS

I have had to radically delete links to our sister site, Bernard-Preston.com. If you want more information about subjects in bold, copy and paste them into the Site Search function in the navigation bar above.

A. AVOCADOS - rich in the healthy fats

  • AVOCADO BENEFITS …

      APPLES for every organ, even the lungs

  • Apple diet is about tips for healthy LUNGS, HEART AND BOWELS.

To find links to the topics in bold copy and paste them into the site search function in the navigation bar on your left.

Lentils.

B. BEANS and LEGUMES

With so much evidence now that a high animal protein diet is associated with a host of diseases, including cancer and heart disease, it make sense to start substituting legumes for our animal protein. So easy, so delic in any case.

  • Growing green beans
  • COOKING GREEN BEANS is so easy …
  • HOW TO GROW PEAS rich in vegetable protein, recipes too …
  • LENTIL PROTEIN for a rich protein source with zero CHOLESTEROL … 
  • GREEN BEAN AND LENTIL SOUP … if it sustains Andre Agassi through a match then it's good enough for me!

Beans, peas, chickpeas, lentils, pulses... it's all about increasing the vegetable protein and fibre in your diet.

  • Authentic hummus recipe from garbanzo beans is the world's favourite vegetable protein. 
  • Go to CHICKPEA BURGERS … 
  • TOFU NUTRITION is a cheap high protein, easy to prepare food; less hot flushes. 
  • Sufferin' succotash, it's high time to try this old traditional corn and beans dish. SUCCOTASH RECIPE ...
  • Gouty tophi mean a change to beans and legumes.

       BANTING FOR VEGETARIANS

The classic Banting diet, being high in animal protein and fat, is repugnant to vegetarians.

Banting for vegetarians explores ways for the vegans to diet without bacon and all the other high animal fat products.


Beetroot diet.

     BEETS

Beetroot is definitely one of the nutrient dense vegetables. Rich in iron for women, with soluble fibre for the constipated, absolutely vital anti inflammatory betaine, simply delicious.


         BROCCOLI

Queen of the anti-cancer vegetables, broccoli makes a delicious soup:



     BUTTERNUT (winter) SQUASH

  • Growing butternut squash
Easy butternut squash soup.

BACKACHE

Backache Tips for the gardener you can find at BACKPAIN.

Sketch of a bending figure by van Gogh.

C. Making a Compost Pile

Like humans, vegetables require good food to grow in; a comparison of the butternut and pumpkins that swarm over our compost piles in the summer with those in ordinary ground is astonishing.

  • Making a compost pile is so rewarding.

     CAULIFLOWER

  • Cauliflower soup recipe


C.  CHICKEN BONES

  • Chicken bones make a wonderful curative stock for arthritis sufferers.

    CHICKPEAS


       CELERY


C. CHILIS


     CUMIN

CHIROPRACTIC HELP

Sound chiropractic help is much more than adjusting your spine; your overall health is just as dependent on dipping regularly into these healthy living tips, and taking plenty of exercise.

Even if you consult a chiropractor every single day, but eat fast food regularly and sit behind a computer all day, you'll not be healthy.

Folk following this sort of regimen can seriously consider going without personal medical insurance; I have.

These chiropractic tips might be useful.

Food synergy is a new and interesting concept. Research is showing that enjoying whole foods is far superior to eating the individual constituents. Drinking fresh orange juice is far better to taking ascorbic acid tablets for your vitamin C. Nothing beats the taste of your own home squeezed OJ either. Don't begrudge the time; a tenth of what you'll spend consulting your doctor and lying in bed with the flu.

What's more, you can cheat. You can enjoy a cream cheese dip, provided you follow it with olive pate and a couple pecan nut halves with no detrimental effect on your bad LDL cholesterol. The fat and protein in mutton stew lowers the high glycemic index of mashed potatoes.

Think of as wide a dietary spectrum as you can, select nutritious nutrient dense foods, not white rice and bread.


CHOLESTEROL ... essential for healthy nerves, nasty if you guzzle too much and don't follow our healthy living tips!

Remember, not all cholesterol is "bad". At our Olive Garden pages you can learn all about the difference between HDLs and LDLs and their different function. If you don't eat cholesterol foods, your body will manufacture it. You can't live without cholesterol.

  • EASY EGGPLANT RECIPES including my favourite stuffed aubergine.
  • Moutabel Baba Ghannouj is hot and spicy... 
  • Foods to avoid high cholesterol ... the ins and outs of LDL, HDL and triglycerides.
  • Get off statins safely.

D. DELICIOUS DIPS

Eggs Florentine.

E. EGGS

Eggs are the best source of vitamin B12, and choline too; without it you'll get a nasty called pernicious anaemia. Think food synergy: have your eggs on a bed of spinach.

  • Eggs Florentine @ how to grow spinach
  • High protein low fat foods
  • Choline food sources
  • Synergy of green living means you can have your egg and eat it.


     EGGPLANT

       EYESIGHT

Never was I more astonished than when, after examining my eyes carefully, the optometrist declared, 'You eat a lot of greens, don't you? He went on to explain the benefits of lutein.

FATTY FISH

Whatever else you do this week, unless you're a vegetarian, purchase some fatty fish. Twice a week is recommended by the heart foundation, and rightly so. Oodles of research now proving fish has benefits on a wide range of diseases from cardiovascular to arthritis to Parkinsons to Alzheimers; one of our very best healthy living tips.

F. Flax seeds

Flax seeds are the richest vegetable source of omega-3 fatty acids. So simple to add to your food with the use of this cheapo coffee and seed grinder.

F. Flour

  • Use only 100% wholewheat healthy flour in your baking and don't be deceived by the term "wholewheat". Millers may call it that if no more than 40% of the goodies have been removed; that's the bran and germ.

G. Garbanzo beans

Garbanzo beans, aka Chickpeas are the world's favourite protein source. Literally, and for good reason. Think of making your own

If you pressure cook and freeze your garbanzos it takes only four minutes to make your own fresh hummus.

H. HONEY - for infertility and ulcers

There are few subjects closer to my heart. A beekeeper for over fifty years, this is the hobby that continues to fascinate and grip my attention. But there's a big BUT. Only raw honey has any merit, it's a very heat-labile product, and to get raw honey you need to visit a small local beekeeper probably. 

It's no coincidence that we talk of a HONEYmoon and a bottle of honey mead was always given to a couple celebrating the nuptials.


      HYDROGENATED FOODS

Why are they so dangerous? We don't allow margarine in our home. Tastes like plastic, and is plastic. But, to enjoy the benefits and taste of butter, you do have to be thinking food synergy. 

I. Ice cream

I definitely will get to a page on ice cream... if you are regularly eating foods from our Healthy Living Tips page then icecream is definitely on the menu.

  • Easy homemade vanilla ice cream
Mulberry jam on ice cream.

J. Jams and jellies

For this I'll need she-who-must-be-obeyed's help. She makes divine jams. The Chinese guava is my favourite. There's young fruit on our tree and they will be ripe in April. The trick is to get the gel point right. Much gnashing of teeth, but worth all the effort. Delic.

K. Mmm...? A suggestion for our healthy living tips? Ah, kale.

  • Nutritional value of kale for your eyes.

L. Lima beans

Dried, they are known as butter beans, and are great food, but fresh green lima beans are to die for; you won't find them in the supermarket; make some sufferin' succotash.

  • Growing lima beans ...

M. Mushrooms

Mead


N. Nuts about healthy living tips

Interesting research that those who include a small amount of nuts daily in the diet, despite their high fat content actually lose weight. Strange but true. More important they are vital part of getting your cholesterol into balance. Along with fish, highly recommended by the Heart Foundation.


Three pecan nuts a day.

O. ORANGES and LEMONS

  • Orange juice and OJ - are they the same? Orange juice facts ...
  • Lemon drop drink recipe ...

O.  OLIVE GARDEN - get your inflammatory omega-6 count down

Fats are controversial but universally it is agreed that olive garden nutrition is the very best; it's from a fruit not a seed.

OSTEOPOROSIS,

Our osteoporosis page is arguably the most important blog at healthy living tips; only prevention works; neglected, disability which is worse than pain lurks.


O.   Omega-3

  • Anti-inflammatory omega 3 ...
  • Foods to reduce inflammation ...

P.  PARSLEY BENEFITS - don't let your randy teenager near the parsley!

     Pesto

  • Pesto, also made at home in a jiffy.

       Prunes


R. RADISHES

Radishes will turn a "boring" lettuce and tomato salad into a food divine. High in fibre, vitamin C, zinc and other antioxidants and phytosterols, it doesn't however compare with broccoli in the cancer prevention stakes.

  • How to grow radishes ...
  • Radish nutrition ...

     Red Meat

A recent study out of Harvard, reported in ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE RESEARCH, is that premenopausal women who eat more than 1.5 servings of red meat per day - bacon and eggs for breakfast, mutton stew for dins? - may double their risk of breast cancer compared to ...


S. STRAWBERRIES

How wrong folk lore and tradition can be. Early Dutch cynics called strawberries useless flavoured water. How wrong can you be?

Spinach

The Popeye food is the richest source of magnesium; a deficiency is one of the main causes of arthritis, hence our interest as chiropractors.


T. Tahini

Tahini is a sesame seed paste that is so easy to make; it's one of the essential ingredients of many Mediterranean foods like hummus. Rich in phytosterols and lignans that prevent raised cholesterol, full of essential amino acids and the healthy fat, oleic acid, that coats your nerves. Sesame tahini is important for your Chiropractor.


Tahini recipes with a salad.

T. TOMATOES

The red colouring in tomatoes, lycopenes, a carotenoid, have been shown to reduce prostate cancer (and others presumably) by 50%. That's hot! We should all be eating more phytosterols and carotenoids, found freely in vegetables and fruit.

T. TOFU

There is so much research coming out confirming that lessening our reliance on red meat is vital if we want to avoid disease. That means more legumes, and there's none better than tofu nutrition.


V. VEGAN

Intelligently done, a healthy way of living, notwithstanding potential vitamin B12 deficiency. Also a good way to lose weight.

W. WATER

Eight glasses a day? An old myth that's stuck despite the research.


     WEIGHT LOSS

With obesity killing more people now than starvation, literally, it behoves all to watch the creeping killer that's stalking most of us. Perhaps worse than death, disability due to knee, hip and foot arthritis.

WHEAT

The wheat flour used to bake commercial bread is one of the greatest cons in today food industry. See also under Flour.

Useful links

  1. What Is Bulgur Wheat?

Suggestions? Do you have any food that you would like me to research for you? Contact ...

Did you find this page useful? Then perhaps forward it to a suffering friend. Better still, Tweet or Face Book it.

Share this page:
Enjoy this page? Then forward it to a friend. Here's how...

Would you prefer to share this page with others by linking to it?

  1. Click on the HTML link code below.
  2. Copy and paste it, adding a note of your own, into your blog, a Web page, forums, a blog comment, your Facebook account, or anywhere that someone would find this page valuable.