Ivor Goodbody

How best to live the longest healthy life? #MedDiet (without sugar/sweeteners), #fasting, #exercise, #veg garden, #sunshine, #meditation+#GoodLuck = #LONGEVITY

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Dr Ancel Keys didn't invent the #MediterraneanDiet. It existed in many forms for centuries before he named it in his 1959 bestseller Eat Well & Stay Well. But he wove these traditions into a single dietary pattern that now boasts more evidence of health benefits than any other.

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@CaloriesProper @NutritionDanny If the questioner shares your view, then his question wasn't truly "genuine", as he claimed.

And to suggest that mere support for a view renders a person illegitimate rather than, say, simply mistaken, is not a stance I would ever care to share.

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@NutritionDanny There are also 20thC studies of the Inuit that detail a diet almost exclusively based on fish &meat (one uses the phrase "totally carnivorous"), plus work on other hunter-gatherers showing various degrees of heavy carnivory, so it's not as if the concept itself is a total fantasy

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@NutritionDanny While I don't hold with Paleo myself, adhering instead to a #MedDiet,there are academics of note such as anthropologist Melvin Konner & geographer Jared Diamond who support it, yes https://t.co/rgJGh2sMzY The falsity of their views isn't down to any illegitimacy in their status.

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@NutritionMadeS3 Can't see whether study distinguished between types of olive oil. Research is patchy here but seems to consistently associate best outcomes only with EVOO. Indeed, there may be *even better* outcomes to be had from the *very freshest*, vs regular, EVOO. Eg https://t.co/Fr5mn1k7o7

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10/10 May you give and receive great service, love and be loved whole-heartedly, and thrive mightily in the year to come.

Happy New Year.

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1/10 It's been exactly 10 years since I joined #Twitter, which seems an appropriate interval for reflection.

Long story short: I've decided to take a huge step back from social media after concluding that the value of my contribution does not justify the time spent on making it.

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9/10 Two, I'm not a believer in New Year's resolutions, for reasons I've tweeted before at this time of year. But if you must have one, may I suggest this:

Remove all added sweeteners from your diet.

I guarantee you'll be amazed at the transformation this brings to your life.

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@Cook34H Deepest sympathies on your devastating loss, Heather. May the passing of time heal the pain you feel at present 🙏

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@mrdamours Hope the day goes with a...

https://t.co/0pG4dTdVoR

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TLDR: Gravity says no. But mushrooms and trees can get Godzilla-sized.

And you really should read the whole article, because it's full of interesting tidbits.

https://t.co/z0mh1zhc07

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"Himalayan glaciers have lost #ice ten times more quickly over the last few decades than on average since the last major glacier expansion 400-700 years ago, & far more rapidly than #glaciers in other parts of the world, at an 'exceptional' rate." https://t.co/3LdMffO050

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"Highly proficient musicianship can increase cognitive #brain reserve as one ages. Thus lifelong learning is a very worthwhile aim; picking up a new language or a new instrument should not be pursuits confined to the young child."

#learning #aging
https://t.co/wOzTYcn4Qz

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2/2 A surprising result that suggests "non-quitters" should be targeted too https://t.co/epMy1X8NHo Judging by the disclosures, #BigTobacco had no part in funding this study, paid for by various US government agencies. I've no idea whether they are subject to regulatory capture.

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1/2 "In a study of 1600 US adults, daily cigarette #smokers who did not initially use e-cigarettes & had no plans to ever quit #smoking, subsequent daily e-cig use was significantly associated with 8-fold greater odds of #cigarette discontinuation compared with no e-cig use."