Living with Leslie: Life after 50
Just in! Chronic Disease NAFL information. The American College of Sports Medicine has released the following regarding Liver Health. If you needed another reason to exercise, here you have it! Copy Link below
https://www.acsm.org/blog-detail/acsm-bulletin-blog/2023/04/28/acsm-hot-topic-exercise-improves-liver-health?utm_source=Informz
As a licensed professional, I can recommend recipes and offer nutrition suggestions and basic plans. Information and tips provided here.
Remember, even if you can't see it, the sun always rises
Healthy Recipes
Looking to reduce sugar?
https://www.livestrong.com/article/13776890-dietitian-tips-to-reduce-sugar-intake/
Is Pasta the enemy? Find out below!
https://www.livestrong.com/article/195109-how-to-lose-weight-eating-pasta/
Exercise Tips
https://www.livestrong.com/article/13775455-pilates-for-weight-loss/
Looking to improve metabolism?
HIIT
Strength and Cardio
Weights
Pilates on off HIIT days
Eat more protein
Small meals throughout the day
Turmeric, Cinnamon
Misc Info
Merch Monday! You know you are over 50 when excitement is a new, sustainable, stackable, collapsible, dishwasher safe, colorful version of tupperware. Say good-bye to kitchen clutter! Gone are the days of missing tops and bottoms and poor storage. These are pricey, but worth it. Tell me you aren’t totally thrilled with the storage ability!!! Right? FLAT! That isn’t just the top but the WHOLE thing! Shown here are the clear versions, but solid colors also available. Click pic to get 15%off
Random Thoughts
Wellness Wednesday: In 2014 an infrared sauna became my "go to"...
9 years ago, our new home came with, of all things, a treadmill AND a Sunlighted Infrared 2 Person Sauna. For a wellness professional, it was a dream come true. A new Life Fitness Tread AND A SAUNA? Having used sauna’s several times a week most of my adult life, this was akin to walking into a Colombian field of coffee beans. Mecca. So, having an autoimmune disease for years, I always wondered if the effects I felt afterward were psychosomatic or legit benefits of light therapy. First, what is Light Therapy? Light therapy (for sauna via spas/skin treatments) is artifical light designed to treat various medical disorders, SAD, skin wound infections etc. However, for my specific condition, light therapy is contraindicated, but so far but I monitor my numbers and they have actually improved, so in my opinion light therapy can actually work.
Please note, some declare this causes premature aging, those with skin cancer should avoid among some other diseases, so as always, this isn’t for everyone and you should check with your doctor.
Infrared Sauna Truths
Taken from the Sunlighten Website
What is Light Therapy (Directly from Sunlighten Website)
Detoxification
Sweat better. It’s one of the body’s safest and most natural ways to heal and maintain good health. Sunlighten’s high-quality infrared promotes effortless, deep, productive sweat.
Immunity
Stay healthy. The natural preventive properties of Sunlighten’s patented heating technology helps your cell health and overall immunity.
Heart Health
Strengthen your heart. Infrared therapy acts like a passive cardio workout, which helps your heart by improving circulation and even helping to reducing blood pressure.
Weight Loss
Increase metabolism. Burn calories. Far infrared wavelengths in all Sunlighten saunas create a passive workout, stimulating sluggish metabolism and improving fat burning.
Infrared is part of a natural spectrum.
Visible light and infrared are part of the electromagnetic spectrum, a continuum of light waves organized by how they interact with matter. Scientists explain infrared is a safe, gentle form that brings many good, healthy things to earth and human beings. The energy it delivers is just the right nudge cells need to stimulate warmth, growth and release. 1, 2, 3
Infrared comes in 3 distinct types.
Because it’s on a spectrum, infrared has a range of waves in its own category. There are 3 types based on wave size, frequency, and the amount of energy they carry: near (NIR), mid (MIR) and far (FIR). Though tiny pinpoint-size waves, each infrared ray does something beautifully unique for our bodies, and nature. Memory tip: each one is named for how close it is to visible light.
https://www.sunlighten.com/light-science/research
For more information about light research, click link above.
So how does one feel after using the Sunlighten Sauna? I can only speak to how it makes me feel personally: I am more relaxed, my muscles are not as sore (it could be b/c I stretch in the sauna also), I believe that via sweat I am eliminating toxins. What I don’t feel: I don’t feel a cardio benefit. They speak about a passive heart benefit. I believe maybe indirectly it improves circulation thus the assumption is that it benefits, but you won’t feel like you’ve just run 3 miles. It’s a secondary response, only IMO!!! I’m not a doctor, this is only my opinion.
Trivia Thursday
Sometimes I love random subjects. Trivia Thursday is the perfect day for this article. You are welcome…
Have you ever been outside and a fly landed on your food? Or maybe you were eating inside and a pesky fruit fly invaded your plate. Can you still eat the food?
https://www.livestrong.com/article/13775065-what-happens-when-a-fly-lands-on-your-food/
