Healthy? PEOPLE JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER (I do not see a co- morbidity...)

January 28 2020

originally published on the blog www.seafood4unow,com

by Margaret Belton

As a reader, you do not need to depend on statistics, or even scientific references to know this simple truth. You need to make money and look younger than you really are if you are to stay competitive in the workplace. The goal is to quit working and have a comfortable life. Make money fast and Age slowly. Can you do it? What pitfalls must you avoid? Age faster by ignoring inflammation.  Make these 3 common mistakes. Forget that a sore joint is sore because the immune system is            communicating  in a confined space and the result is Pain                   Forget about Healing and quickly make the pain go away for now                           Forget about consistent body maintenance: Stay dehydrated, Never cook-                                  always eat out.Eat fast foods… Maybe you only allow one of the 3 mistakes to determine your body’s appearance and future. But once you are past puberty, it only takes one factor to start your body on the Aging Badly Pathway.  The following list of diseases that are commonly responsible for the Aging Badly Pathway is Inflammatory Diseases. You only need one to have a life-changing issue...that costs $$$$$

Dealing with a chronic life-changing issue that could have been avoided or minimized is why comfortable retirement is iffy.

"Many major diseases that plague us - including cancer, heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, depression, and Alzheimer's - have been linked to chronic inflammation."  Harvard Medical School

Sneaking Up on You You jam your fingers too many times on the computer keyboard so now it may be an inflamed joint aka carpal tunnel syndrome.   Arthritis  You never get your teeth cleaned often enough                                                                                      …and you barely brush well twice a day.   Heart disease?  Alzheimer's?    Very recent research points to strong links between Heart disease, Alzheimer's and dental hygiene. (1) Alzheimer's is the most common An indication of aging. You eat rich snacks late at night and gain weight so that you are approximately 19- 20 percent heavier than you should be. You gained 25 lbs in less than 2 years!   Diabetes?  Very high probability of this outcome! Diabetes complicates getting older in style. If any of this applies to you, there is a solution Fighting Aging  means fighting Inflammation Everybody knows someone with diabetes. It is the fastest growing /aging disease. Diabetes is an inflammatory state? This much is true. Sugar in the bloodstream in high amounts while you are sleeping and not burning it up…. This process is promoting inflammatory responses until you excrete it. What about Heart disease? The veins and arteries from your chest to your brain help you fight the flu or common cold- both of those annoyances will go away. But consistently un-brushed teeth or a bad, infected tooth – those germs live in the pipes. If your immune system is too busy fighting other problems, the inflammation caused by tooth decay will just get used to its surroundings. Those germs become a part of you but cause damage in places like your arteries and sinuses in the brain and heart systems. Physical damage to your pipes allows the veins and arteries to get stiff and clogged. Eventually, less oxygen gets to the heart. You know what happens next… Arthritis? (2)  That constantly sore joint does not confine pain byproducts to the damaged joint. Instead, those pain products (cytokines) circulate in the bloodstream creating internal havoc . It is stress. Stress ages you. It is GRIM. Your poor body slowly becomes a factory that produces Inflammation and inflammation by-products. Being overweight is only part of the problem. Being overworked is only part of the problem. Lacking the funds for ongoing dental care is only part of the problem.  Even for Cancer – triggers that activate your body  /genes is only part of the problem. The other part of the problem is humans tend to be inconsistent in regards to healthy habits, lifestyles, and food choices. But there is a solution You can learn to cook and eat foods that fight inflammation. Over 2000 years ago Hippocrates promoted this idea:                     

Let Food be thy Medicine and Medicine be thy Food

Hippocrates lived in the Mediterranean region bounded by Rome, Greece, Turkey and  North Africa. His grocery list included fruits in season: Honey, Olive oil, Fish including  Sardines, and about 40 other items. The chart designed by the Harvard School of Public Health does not say you have to eat a Mediterranean diet which people often think includes pasta as well as olive oil. The chart if studied suggests several approaches: Middle Eastern Cuisine is a possibility. Gluten-free is a possibility. Pescetarian is a possibility. Red Meat is not on the chart! The chart lists the categories of food that are not only anti-inflammatory but can be eaten organically. Fish that is not farmed is fish that are not eating fish pellets,  which in America means quality because the fish is wild caught. A wild caught fish creates fats to swim in water. Fish tend to move constantly so the type of fats produced in the wild, in cold water, in Freezing water is available in Higher Amounts in the body of the wild caught “fatty” fish. Dye is used to making farm caught fish appear similar to wild caught. (3) A real wild caught salmon is almost Red! In Nature, there is a range of colors for Wild Salmon aka Chinook aka King Salmon Hippocrates was not aware of oxygen and how the bloodstream works, but he knows that red is a color indicating life.

A comparison between farmed (top) and wild (bottom) salmon.

Your blood is red due to the high amount of oxygen in the bloodstream. A wild caught

Fish is also oxygenated- the water it swims inflows OUTSIDE!  (4)  Everything a salmon does while surviving in nature is stored in the tissues.

 If you cook it carefully-

                         not frying it so the oils are not  completely broken down --

                                               -- you preserve the  Qualities that make fish Anti-inflammatory

The oils you eat from the fish literally chill out the inflammation response. How?

The latest research on the most underrated Omega oil aka Omega 3 is that the

oil in the body actively jumps on inflammatory immune bodies called macrophages and

keeps them from being continually active- resulting in chronic inflammation slowdown.

Think Pac –Man!

There is receptor blocking activity from Omega 3 as well-  less pain produced if less

Inflammatory products are not allowed to interact with receptor sites for the immune system. The pain cycle/inflammation cycle is Broken.

This ability to block the overeager immune system  REDUCES STRESS.

Less stress = increased ability to live gently and age slower.

So now that you know that eating fish high in Omega 3 oils (that includes sardines)

Is preferable to eating white fish and bottom-feeding fish like Catfish

And you know that Omega 3 oils reduce inflammation in the human body

AND you are invested in 3 positive modes:  Living well, feeling well, and looking well- NO CO-MORBIDITIES