Discover the secrets to a healthy and fulfilling life with these 5 Blue Zones-inspired habits. Learn from the world's longest-living communities and incorporate their lifestyle practices into your daily routine.
3 min read
5 Habits for a Healthy New Year Inspired by the World's Original Blue Zones
Topics: Downshift Eat Wisely Move Naturally Plant Slant connect Featured
3 min read
Cancer—Opportunities to Improve
Cancer is still too common and deadly—even though early diagnosis and better treatments are available. Cancer death rates downward trends in mortality (cancer death rates) are the gold standard for evidence of progress against cancer. Adults overall, cancer death rates decreased 2.2% per year (on average) among males and 1.7% per year (on average) among females. In fact, for ages under 65, neoplasms (cancer) account for 26 percent of deaths while heart disease only 18 percent. For individuals over age 65, cancer fatalities drop to 22 percent, while cardiac disease deaths increase to 29 percent. Although both cancer and heart disease prognoses have improved since 1975, the rate of improvement for cancer lags behind that of heart disease.
Topics: Plant Slant Bulletin
3 min read
Counting Calories When Dining Out
It is said, “We are what we eat,” and, as a nation, we are eating too much! Further, we don’t fully understand what we are consuming. Americans increasingly rely on restaurant dining. In 1970, we spent just 26% of our food dollars on eating out whereas today’s modern family spends 44% on away-from-home meals. The average American today consumes about one-third of his or her food calories at restaurants and other food-service establishments, while 30 years ago only 18% of our calories were consumed in restaurants.
Topics: Eat Wisely Plant Slant Bulletin
2 min read
May is Mediterranean Diet Month
May is Mediterranean Diet Month, a campaign started in 2019 by the Mediterranean Foods Alliance to celebrate the good-for-you foods associated with this region of the world.
Topics: Eat Wisely Plant Slant
2 min read
Best Salad Recipes for National Salad Month
The month of May brings warmer temperatures and longer days as well as many delicious fresh fruits and vegetables at their peak. It’s no wonder then that May is also National Salad Month.
Topics: Eat Wisely Recipes Plant Slant
3 min read
Transform Your Kitchen into a Blue Zones Kitchen
Sure, the kitchen is where you cook, but it can also be the heart of your home. It may be where you gather with family to share stories about your day over a meal. Or your kitchen may be the place where you share recipes, and good times with friends.
Topics: Power 9 Right Tribe 80% Rule Eat Wisely Healthy Eating Plant Slant Right Outlook BZP Resource
2 min read
Celebrate Mediterranean Diet Month
Summer is coming and all too often we look for the next quick fix or fad diet to look good in our bathing suits or short sleeves. However, what may work in the short term, is not necessarily what is best for our health for the long term. It’s time to take a look at the Mediterranean diet. This traditional diet has rooted itself over 5,000 years based on regional environment, culture, seasonal foods and local products. Only in the last 50 years has it been the subject of intensive clinical research and gained traction in the health and scientific community as one of the healthiest diets in the world. In fact,
U.S. News & World Report recently announced the Mediterranean Diet as the No. 1 Best Overall Diet for the third year in a row.
Topics: Eat Wisely Plant Slant Healthier Eating at Home
6 min read
Behind Every Good Recipe is an Even Better Story
Behind every good recipe is an even better story—the story makes it
tasty too! (If you don’t immediately get the reference to Vitameatavegamin & Lucille Ball – then I feel sorry for you).
Picture this: A big family - Mom, Dad, five children, and Nanny (aka Grandma Daisy) are all watching television together (yes, this was a long time ago).
