http://www.slowagingblog.com Do you want to slow the aging process, live in great health for longer and prevent disease? Mon, 14 May 2012 09:51:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 http://www.slowagingblog.com/nutrition/probiotics http://www.slowagingblog.com/nutrition/probiotics#comments Thu, 05 Apr 2012 00:55:05 +0000 Glenn Cardwell http://www.slowagingblog.com/?p=5042 http://www.slowagingblog.com/nutrition/probiotics/feed 0 http://www.slowagingblog.com/nutrition/eggs-and-cholestrol http://www.slowagingblog.com/nutrition/eggs-and-cholestrol#comments Mon, 30 Jan 2012 23:30:58 +0000 Glenn Cardwell http://www.slowagingblog.com/?p=5047 Eggs are very nutritious. They contain good quality protein, lots of
 vitamins and minerals, and mostly the healthier polyunsaturated fat]]> http://www.slowagingblog.com/nutrition/eggs-and-cholestrol/feed 0 http://www.slowagingblog.com/nutrition/nutritional-impact-resistant-starch http://www.slowagingblog.com/nutrition/nutritional-impact-resistant-starch#comments Thu, 19 Jan 2012 03:00:52 +0000 Glenn Cardwell http://www.slowagingblog.com/?p=4466 Unlike typical fiber, Resistant starch (RS) doesn't get digested and ends up in the large intestine with huge health benefits. It's a bit like a "prebiotic"]]> http://www.slowagingblog.com/nutrition/nutritional-impact-resistant-starch/feed 0 http://www.slowagingblog.com/nutrition/vitamin-d-aging http://www.slowagingblog.com/nutrition/vitamin-d-aging#comments Sat, 17 Dec 2011 23:04:34 +0000 Glenn Cardwell http://www.slowagingblog.com/?p=4177 Nearly every cell in your body has a vitamin D receptor. The only food that can provide your daily needs of D are light-exposed mushrooms. ]]> http://www.slowagingblog.com/nutrition/vitamin-d-aging/feed 0 http://www.slowagingblog.com/nutrition/population-weight http://www.slowagingblog.com/nutrition/population-weight#comments Wed, 23 Nov 2011 05:27:42 +0000 Glenn Cardwell http://www.slowagingblog.com/?p=3670 Not while we live in an affluent democracy! First, let me be bold and honest. The answer to the question is “No”. Not while we live in an affluent democracy with abundant, relatively cheap food. You may have your own idea for a population solution. Certainly there have been many espoused – tax cakes, confectionery ]]> http://www.slowagingblog.com/nutrition/population-weight/feed 0 http://www.slowagingblog.com/nutrition/health-impact-of-wine http://www.slowagingblog.com/nutrition/health-impact-of-wine#comments Tue, 09 Aug 2011 12:29:29 +0000 Glenn Cardwell http://www.slowagingblog.com/?p=2068 http://www.slowagingblog.com/nutrition/health-impact-of-wine/feed 0 http://www.slowagingblog.com/nutrition/food-for-gout http://www.slowagingblog.com/nutrition/food-for-gout#comments Tue, 02 Aug 2011 08:50:31 +0000 Glenn Cardwell http://www.slowagingblog.com/?p=1984 Recently I had to review the dietary treatment of gout for a client. Gout is a common form of arthritis, yet there is very little research on the role of food despite textbooks and the web being full of dietary advice and presumptions. What is gout? Gout is characterized by high levels of uric acid ]]> http://www.slowagingblog.com/nutrition/food-for-gout/feed 0 http://www.slowagingblog.com/nutrition/snack-or-meal http://www.slowagingblog.com/nutrition/snack-or-meal#comments Fri, 01 Jul 2011 08:48:32 +0000 Glenn Cardwell http://www.slowagingblog.com/?p=1841 http://www.slowagingblog.com/nutrition/snack-or-meal/feed 0 http://www.slowagingblog.com/nutrition/sugar-and-health http://www.slowagingblog.com/nutrition/sugar-and-health#comments Thu, 30 Jun 2011 14:45:07 +0000 Glenn Cardwell http://www.slowagingblog.com/?p=1835 It is nearly forty years since John Yudkin wrote the book Pure, White and Deadly. He thought there was a direct link between sugar consumption and heart disease, since disproven. Are we now eating more sugar than ever or are we eating the same amount as in 1980? Is there a link between our sugar ]]> http://www.slowagingblog.com/nutrition/sugar-and-health/feed 0 http://www.slowagingblog.com/nutrition/paleolithic-diet http://www.slowagingblog.com/nutrition/paleolithic-diet#comments Mon, 20 Jun 2011 16:07:21 +0000 Glenn Cardwell http://www.slowagingblog.com/?p=1781 What is the perfect diet? If you go by what you read in the media, you might toss up between the Mediterranean diet, the low-carb diet, or the Japanese diet. Now and again you will hear of the hunter-gatherer diet, or cave man diet, touted as the ideal choice as it was the diet consumed ]]> http://www.slowagingblog.com/nutrition/paleolithic-diet/feed 0