I have seen recent posts that claim the world’s centenarians are vegan. This is not truth!
The Blue Zone Centenarian diets vary worldwide. Longevity success is built on healthy lifestyles, with downtime, shifting activity during a stressful day by incorporating various stress-relieving choices and rest, for examples brief naps, prayer, walks in nature, panorama and sunset gazing.
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Fluid consumption is homemade wine and primarily water, also coffee and tea. Sleep is paramount and average 7.5 hrs per night.
They engage in daily natural movement: walking, gardening, housekeeping, caregiving loved ones; having fellowship with actively sought out healthy relationships, activities with loved ones, and give back to their communities, and have a sense of gratitude and purpose. They live a different pace but still get things accomplished and more effectively.
Additionally, it was found that genetics contribute only 20% to disease when people consume healthful diets and lifestyles.
Their dietary eating pattern is to eat to 80% of satiety. The main foods are vegetable-based diet, adhering to traditional preparation and cooking methods that effectively remove lectins. They enjoy animal products on holidays and weekends. Part of relaxation and antioxidant consumption is regular social consumption of 3/4 glass for women, 2 glasses of Cannonau High-flavonoid wine.
Individuals in these groups had low serum inflammatory markers, low C-Reactive Proteins and homocysteine levels, lower lipid peroxide levels when tested compared to Americans and westerners.
Vegetables and fruit need to be organically on volcanic enriched soil and best if they are biodynamically grown to provide the optimal vitamin, mineral and water content.
Food Selection Advice:
Commercial animal husbandry animals are GMO-, pesticide-, herbicide-containing grains, animal flesh contribute to brain inflammatory diseases and cancer in the animals and the end-user.
Cows and sheep are ruminants: their gut is designed to digest and utilize grass only. Healthy chickens are those who pasture feed and not grain or flaxseed fed.
Select 100% “finished,” that is pastured the entire life of the grass-feeding animals. Wild caught Alaskan Waters fish. No farmed fish! Pastured non-corn fed turkeys and chickens and their eggs.
Food Preparation and Cooking designed to remove damaging lectins:
The seeds, grains, leaves, barks, and shells where lectins are hiding especially the nightshades, legumes and most fruits.
Beans are soaked overnight, washed thoroughly. Water added and brought to a boil, skimmed off and set to pressure cooking. Pressure cooking grains do not remove their lectins. However, soaking overnight and thoroughly washing grains and sprouting them as well as preparing sourdough, the microbial leavening destroys the grain lectins.
Grains are sprouted and leavened with sour starter and baked into breads, biscuits, pan cooked for pancakes and crepes.
Peeling and coring tomatoes removes the majority of the lectins:
Peel the skins after dunking tomatoes into boiling water to loosen the skin. Cut in half and scoop out the seeds. This can be done to most fruits and vegetables like apples, pears, cucumbers, zucchini, squash. Potatoes are tubers and are high in oxalates and should be considered if there are sensitivities to oxalates. Their skins contain the highest content of their lectins.
Lectins:
Lectins are the plants’ immune defense. Its chemicals damage the gut lining of predators and insects and those that feed on them.
Lectins in a food, bind to carbohydrates, especially to complex sugars (polysaccharides), in the body of people, animals and insects after it has eaten the plant. Since we are significantly larger than insects, the effects of lectins are usually not immediately noticeable. But they appear over more extended periods.
Lectins damage the gut lining causing leaky gut. Over time and under the right metabolic conditions they weaken the barrier of the intestinal wall daily, allowing lectins to penetrate. Once in the blood stream, the immune system recognizes undigested material as a foreign substance and produces antibodies to the food containing the lectin. Food sensitivities and food allergens cause inflammation in the body.
Support the Gut Barrier:
In summary, incorporating more natural living and utilizing proven food preparation and cooking methods and using high quality ingredients and taking brief and extended down-time interspersed throughout the day and months of busy, stressful modern life can help to extend healthy longevity and can help to reverse aging and disease. Most centenarians who consume more oxalate-containing foods like eggplant and tomato meals contain small amounts of goat, sheep or cow cheese or milk.
According to Healthways’ Blue Zone Project, communities and cities they have counseled have reduced rates of illness and death. Note that changing the way a community moves, eats, and connects requires working with local governments, businesses, schools, and religious organizations.