Lifespan Essential Foods

We all know that foods are sometimes linked to fads.

Sure, there are still those who enjoy a frozen yogurt, box of Cracker Jacks or thoughtful main course of cheese, meat or chocolate Fondue! The down side is that over time, fad foods are often conspicuously missing from a list of healthy foods! In other cases, a particular food is acclaimed to provide some healthy element to a diet, and yet it is subsequently found to be detrimental in another way – take margarine, for example. We, as consumers, often find it difficult to identify foods which provide the short-term enjoyment of taste, along with the long-term benefit of sustaining life.

Pretty regularly someone asks me how long have you been eating healthy foods and working out, my answer is to the first question is all my life. At a early age my mom made three hot meal’s a day, that is fresh home made food. And she also made three well-balanced snacks. All in a wooden stove and the food was all fresh ingredients every day.

My grandparents where Finish, Norwegian, and Austrian my moms grandpa was born in Austria and was the head pastry chef of the Austrian army and my dads mom cooked every thing out of a wood stove to. They did every thing old school, although it may seem a bit odd, cooks who have used wood burning cook stoves swear the electric or gas varieties pale in comparison. Just like in those “happy olden days,” your family and friends are sure to gather around a cook stove to warm hands, hearts, and souls. Think of your grandparents, great-grandparents, or great-great-grandparents preparing their meals and feeding their families on wood burning cook stoves. My every day meals were fresh either right out of woods our fresh out of the lake, then cooked in a wood burning stove or cast-iron pans.

What does rustic healthy living mean to you?

Maybe you grew up with trips to a family cabin, or maybe you’ve just discovered that you are a country soul at heart. There’s no doubt there’s something special about it that’s more than rustic overtones or decor. It’s a state of mind.

For many it’s the connection to family, friends, and nature that makes cabin life so wonderful. Have you ever dreamed of living or spending your leisure time in a cozy cabin in the forest, perhaps with a crystal clear lake in the Superior National Forest at your doorstep? I did, in a log cabin that my dad made with his own hands. He believed a man must work hard with his hands.

How would it feel to hike at your leisure, pick berries for your breakfast, or get up early to fish? Maybe you’ll stay up late for a bonfire or to see the northern lights. Country cooking, by its very nature, is all about hearty flavors, simplicity, eating lean and fat, trimmed to 0″ fat meats, choice, cooked, braised [Cube steak, London Broil, Minute Steak, Round Steak, venison, beef, round, top round, Canada goose, ruffed grouse. large-mouth bass, small-mouth bass, northern pike, trout, brown: trout, lake: crappies, sunfish, and then we have walleye it’s the most sought-after fish in Minnesota these are the foods I lived and grow up on.

“So, enjoy the color, the texture, the flavour…and above all, enjoy life!”

Every so often someone asks ‘how much protein do I need to consume?’ What ensues is pretty predictable – a range of recommendations ranging from the 0.4g per kg body weight right up to 1.5g per lb. There will more often than not be a few studies or articles backing up the various figures and no real consensus.

So why is this? The short answer is no one really knows for sure how much protein a health fitness person needs. There have been no studies on strength athletes and weightlifters who, although similar, have very different training protocols and demands from their training. This leaves the field wide open for all sorts of speculation, and more importantly complete confusion.

The important thing to do then is try and clear the fog. Before arriving at a figure of how much protein a health fitness person needs we need to consider what this protein is being used for. Firstly repair: the repair of every cell in the body – this is going to happen anyway; then there is the repair of muscles broken down during training. The most important two fates for protein for a bodybuilder are growth and the creation of an anabolic environment (which I suppose could be one big thing).

From this little list we can see there are some very variable variables, which doesn’t really help us in our search for an answer. However, it introduces a very important consideration: insurance. The concept of insurance is a basic tenet of bodybuilding; you find it in every facet from supplementation, to diet, to training routines. So how much do I recommend to cover all those bases? 1.5g per lb body weight (or 3g per kg body weight). With the qualification that over 15% bodyfat you calculate lean mass and use that figure for your calculation.

However this is not the end and this is a baseline figure; there are circumstances when this can and should be changed. I f the individual is trying to add muscle mass in a serious bulking program then they can push up to 2g per lb if they are a natural to make the most of the anabolic environment they are creating. If this individual is drug enhanced, then the body’s increased ability to process and utilize protein means that intakes of up to 3g per lb could be beneficial.

One final note – this protein intake has to be part of a structured nutrition program because at the end of the day excess calories will be turned into fat whatever they started off as.

So you are serious about changing your body?

While some of us really get into the whole bodybuilding lifestyle; training, set diet plans, supplements, cardio and routine, some of us simply enjoy the training and feel the strict nutrition is not for them; and there’s nothing wrong with this mindset at all. After all, bodybuilding is simply a hobby and therefore should be recreational and fun; not all of us want to compete. There are benefits to be reaped from simply enjoying your training and eating healthily, and, assuming you’ve got a suitable training routine, here are a few Lifespan Essential Foods to follow. Diet does not necessarily mean a major lifestyle change. ” So, enjoy the color, the texture, the flavour…and above all, enjoy life!

Lifespan Essential Foods
Olyphenol-rich foods:
Apples	Spinach
Blackberries	Broccoli
Blueberries	Plums
Cranberries	Peaches
Strawberries	Oranges
Raspberries	Cherries

Here are just a few healthy points to follow:

» Vary your food choices every day. Variety is the spice of life and you need to eat different foods every day for optimal nutrition. Infact one of the biggest mistakes the over-enthusiastic amongst us make, is not including enough variety in our diet.

» Include foods which are high in quality protein regularly throughout the day. Consume high protein foods or protein drinks at least every three hours while you’re awake. Meat, fish, poultry, cheese, quark, milk, yoghurt, nuts, quorn, soya products are just some great protein foods.

» Eat at least 3 servings of fruit and vegetables per day.

» Include some healthy fats in your diet, in particular foods and oils which are a good source of essential fatty acids – flaxseed oil, olive oil.

» Consume plenty of fibrous starchy carbohydrate foods regularly throughout the day – make these foods the core of your diet; potatoes, sweet potatoes, rice, pasta, cereals, bread, couscous, quinoa, etc.

» Drink plenty of fluids – sip water all day.

» Include protein and meal replacement powders as they can be useful – real food is superior. Ionic Hyper Growth

» Enjoy you’re food – just because you’re a bodybuilder doesn’t mean you need to eat a bland diet.

I made it. Hello, Gym. How’re ya dumbbells hangin’? The iron is in place, the benches are as I remember them, and the pulleys are still round, though they could use a shot of WD-40. Keep ’em loose. After this workout, I might try a shot myself. Exercises are for kids, movements are for men and blondes. Can I go home now and Drink some Ionic Hyper Growth? — Jesse