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Wed all like to live a long time in good health.

Now a recently published study has concluded there are lifestyle factors that can increase your odds of reaching an older age without chronic health issues.

Theres been plenty of research on lifestyle choices, such as smoking, physical activity, drinking habits, weight management, and diet, that affect our overall life span and likelihood of experiencing chronic diseases.

However, few studies have looked at how a combination of these factors relate to a long life free of disease.

We wanted to see whether following a healthy diet and exercise can prolong life, not just life expectancy but life expectancy free of chronic diseases, such as cancer, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes, Dr. Frank Hu, MPH, a professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Massachusetts and lead study author, told Healthline.

Because were not just looking at life span but also health span, meaning that there are increased years of life free of chronic disease, he said.

Researchers examined data from roughly 73,000 registered female nurses in the United States from the Nurses Health Study and from almost 40,000 male health professionals in the United States from the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study.

The study participants didnt have cancer, cardiovascular disease, or diabetes when they were enrolled.

Study participants were routinely assessed for new diagnoses and deaths from cancer, cardiovascular disease, and type 2 diabetes for more than 20 years. Researchers adjusted for age, ethnic background, family medical history, and other considerations.

The low-risk lifestyle factors used to calculate a healthy lifestyle score included:

Adding these five factors together gave a final low-risk lifestyle score ranging from 0 to 5. A higher score indicated a healthier lifestyle.

Your healthcare provider can help with risk scores that can estimate your risk for death for certain conditions, and evidence-based lifestyle modifications and treatments that can improve conditions, said Dr. Katrina Miller Parrish, the chief quality and information executive at L.A. Care Health Plan.

Keep in mind that a healthy lifestyle with low impact, tolerable physical exercise; a good, well-balanced, colorful diet; hydration; and an appropriate amount of sleep can do wonders to help maintain a positive mental outlook and physical state, Parrish told Healthline.

Years of life free from cancer, heart disease, and diabetes at age 50 was 24 years for women who followed none of the low-risk lifestyle factors.

It was 34 years for women who adopted four or five of the factors.

The life expectancy free of these chronic diseases was 24 years among 50-year-old men who followed no low-risk lifestyle factors.

It was 31 years for men who practiced four or five of these healthy habits.

While hypertension is the number one cause for death throughout the world, many lifestyle changes, such as better diet and exercise, can affect this diagnosis to varying degrees, especially based on regimen and adherence, Parrish said.

Being selective in what you eat is one of the most important lifestyle factors.

Foods that are high in fiber have been studied extensively for the benefits that they provide when it comes to cardiovascular health, including blood pressure regulation, Shelley Wood, MPH, RDN, a clinician at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in California, told Healthline.

Wood explains these foods are plant-based and include whole grains, fruits, and vegetables.

Additionally, legumes, such as beans, lentils, and peas, have been shown to lower the risk of heart disease, high cholesterol level, and high blood pressure.

For those wishing to preserve heart function and health, Wood says theyd benefit from avoiding foods high in sugar, sodium, saturated fat, and refined carbohydrates.

Its especially important to avoid these foods if you have high cholesterol. If youre contemplating eating a food that is high in sugar, salt, or fat, your best bet is to choose something else, she said.

Wood adds that optimizing caloric intake and reaching or maintaining a moderate weight and waist measurement into middle age are the single most important ways to reduce risk for diabetes as well as participating in regular physical activity and avoiding smoking.

According to the study, men who smoked heavily defined as 15 or more cigarettes per day and men and women with obesity (defined as BMI 30 or higher) had the lowest chance of disease-free life expectancy at age 50.

We looked at five lifestyle factors: eating a healthy diet, maintaining a healthy body weight, not drinking in excess, not smoking, and being physically active. Theyre all important. But for smokers, the most important thing for them to do, of course, is to stop smoking. For people who are obese, its important to lose weight and maintain a healthy body weight, Hu said.

Parrish agrees that not smoking is critically important.

The one single thing anyone who smokes can do is simply quit and reduce risk of disease and death by double digits, which is seen through this study. The effect appears to be greater the longer an ever-smoker remains no longer smoking, Parrish said.

In the first 1 to 10 years after quitting, the risk of heart disease and lung cancer drops, and by 15 years, the risk of each is near that of a nonsmoker, she added.

New research finds there are five lifestyle factors that significantly increase the years you live without experiencing chronic health issues.

Study participants were followed for more than 20 years. Those who followed four or five of the healthy lifestyle choices significantly increased their healthy life span after age 50.

Experts emphasize that the most influential of these are not smoking and maintaining a moderate body weight.

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It is a well-established fact that 6-time Formula 1 champion Lewis Hamilton is a firm supporter of veganism. So, he uses every opportunity to try and convince his fans to adopt a plant-based diet.

Earlier this year Australia was rocked by catastrophic bushfires and parts of the continent continue to burn. So, he pleaded with his fans to not only aid in Australias efforts to recover, but to save the environment by going vegan.

The Mercedes driver regularly uses his platform to advocate for veganism and stresses on the need to save the environment. In the wake of the devastation, he expressed his sympathy for everyone in Australia and then posted a series of stories about the impact of animal agriculture on the environment.

Grazing livestock is responsible for 54 percent of Australias land use. Urban usage is less than 0.18 percent. Eight percent is conservation, read one post, which credited the Australian Government, Department of Agriculture and Water Resources.

Lewis Hamilton also referred to an Oxford University study that supported the vegan diet and its positive impact. According to it, the diet is supposed to be the best way to reduce a persons negative impact on planet Earth. It affects, not only greenhouse gases, but also global acidification, eutrophication, land use, and water use.

Aside from Hamilton, the likes of Daniel Ricciardo and numerous celebrities pleaded with the publics about Australias plight. They also made sure to donate to various charities to help tackle the fires.

The situation in Australia is so dire that it is believed that more than one billion animals are now feared dead in the blazes. Infernoes have also ravaged more than 2,000 homes, and more than 30,000 square miles, across New South Wales and Victoria killing an estimated 27 people.

In response to the disaster, a fundraiser was set up to help those affected. Reportedly, it raised more than $20 million Australian dollars in 48 hours to help tackle the fire.

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It's a new year and chances are you're trying out a new way of eating. And since it's 2020, chances are that new way of eating is the keto diet. Despite the fact that you can eat bacon, burgers, and eggs as often as you want, you might find yourself missing things like pasta, bread, and BOOZE. Yes, drinking on the keto diet is tough, but not impossible. That's why we created this handy chart to guide you on your journey trying to have a social life while keeping keto.

Though it's worth noting that you should probably be restricting your drinking on any diet, especially the keto diet, which relies on you staying in the delicate balance of ketosis, everyone deserves to let loose every once in a while. We created this chart so you can get your drink on responsibly with some low-carb alcohols.

All of our carb amounts come via the United States Department of Agriculture's database, which is really helpful if you're monitoring pretty much any kind of nutritional info.

You should consult the chart for full details, but here are some good keto rules of thumb to keep in mind: Stick to dry wines in general. They'll pretty much always be lower-carb. Don't mess with sugary mixers, as drinking straight liquor or mixing with soda water will always be lower-carb. Finally, many spiked seltzers can be choices, but be sure to check the label to make sure as there are SO many brands out there.

Happy drinking!

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More than 30 million Americans have diabetes. The vast majority suffer from Type 2 diabetes, which arises when the body doesnt process insulin properly. This causes blood sugar levels to rise and potentially triggers a host of other health problems, like heart disease, kidney disease and loss of vision. The disease has long been characterized as a chronic condition, requiring people to receive regular insulin injections, test their blood sugar levels and take medications.

However, a growing body of evidence suggests that reversing the condition essentially, bringing blood sugar back to a non-diabetic level without meds may be possible through diet and weight loss. In a 2016 study in Barbados, more than half of participants given a low-calorie, low-carb diet, in addition to fibrous fruits and vegetables, were able to reduce their blood sugar to non-diabetic levels. Weight-loss surgery has also been used as a technique to keep diabetes at bay.

But not everybody can control their blood sugar levels without medication, particularly in the diseases later stages. And experts caution that major lifestyle changes involving diet can be difficult for many people to maintain.

Often times, people will go on these very restrictive, low-calorie diets, says Ann Albright, director of the Division of Diabetes Translation at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The evidence is clear that, for a majority of people, those are not sustainable.

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THE NEW YEAR Saying goodbye to 2019 and welcoming 2020 is a few short days away.

Many of us are still reveling in rich, decadent Christmas foods (mmm, pies) while ignoring the calories and that particular shortness of breath that comes when your belly is way too full. But no matter how hard we try, the New Year will still creep up on us, and for many, the New Year means new resolutions.

The "Christmas diet" of 5,200 calorie meals may or may not be what pushes many people to make health-related goals at the start of the New Year, but regardless, diet and exercise seem to be top of mind for many when it comes to resolutions.

If a diet is part of your 2020 goals, and youre not happy about it, youre not alone. Many humans (and dogs) feel the same way.

In this video, youll meet a French bulldog on a diet, and he is definitely N-O-T happy. The clip starts in the first stage of grief denial. With his back to the camera and soft woofs, hes attempting to gently remind his owner that she forgot to give him all his food.

When its clear that she will not budge, a full tantrum appears, with anger and bargaining coming in hot.

The noises this dog makes while whining and complaining is something that may shock you not into a state of horror, but into a state of puredee delight. The only way to describe it to imagine a sort of mix between a toddler, an angry cat, and of course the (sort of) classic howl of a dog's wolf ancestors.

It's glorious to behold, and it is clear that this frenchie on a diet is all of us.

About the Author: Martha OstergarMartha Ostergar is a writer who delights in the ridiculous that internet serves up, which means she's more than grateful that she gets to cruise the web for amazing videos to write about.

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Knowing what people want simply makes sense if your business sometimes comes down to anticipating need.That's why restaurant consultants and marketing experts spend outsize effort analyzing food trends, tossing out ideas that sometimes seem practical, and other times just seem silly.

The rise of robot waiters predicted for 2019 comes to mind as a good example of the latter. And an expected explosion of food from Kazakhstan didn't quite reach Western North Carolina, much to at least my own dismay. And even if New York seems to be hogging more than its fair share of pelmeni, some food trends have boomed in Asheville for years, including the rising national hunger for gut-friendly probiotic-rich food or, simply put, ferments.

So what's next in the world of food? Here, I've shared some of the common ground I found in the trend forecasts for 2020. And since looking back can be equally fun, you can also take a gander at some of the things experts said would come to fruition this year, some of which did, and some of which did not.

Let's kick things off with an unsavory anecdote. Unfortunately, E. coli wreaked havoc on romaine lettuce's reputation in 2019, and New York Times food writer Kim Severson rightly predicted the distrust of everyone's favorite vehicle for Caesar dressing would make way for alt-lettuces to steal the spotlight.

A local lettuce salad at Sawhorse in Leicester.(Photo: ANGELI WRIGHT/ASHEVILLE CITIZEN TIMES)

But tradition dies hard, and romaine is thankfully back in the salad bowl once again the romaine salad with pickled veg, buttermilk dressing and corn nuts at East Asheville's Copper Crown is a fave. Local lettuces, romaine or no, are an Asheville menu staple, which means California-bred contaminations don't always hit us hard.

More: High-tech lettuce company to create 100 jobs in Yancey County with greenhouse complex

Severson also predicted an explosion in farms growing lettuce hydroponically, and locally that's come to fruition.The Massachusetts-basedLittle Leaf Farms,a grower of pesticide-free boxed babygreens, recently announced the imminent construction of 20 acres of high-tech hydroponic greenhouses in Yancey County. And BrightFarms, a New York-based packaged saladcompany, plans to invest $21 million to operate a hydroponic greenhouse in Henderson County.

At Dayton Valley Aquaponics, hydroponic crops are fertilized by fish waste. Water filtered by the crops is returned to the tanks, benefiting the tilapia.(Photo: Provided to RGJ Media)

Severson may have some sort of crystal ball, because she predicted 2019 would usher in cheese tea as "the thing you will try against your better judgment."

Reader, that happened to me, and it will not happen again. Regardless, if you're curious, you can find it atMoge Tee at 5 Biltmore Ave.

Cheese tea at Moge Tee.(Photo: ANGELI WRIGHT/ASHEVILLE CITIZEN TIMES)

Nearly every food trend prognosticatorsaid fermented foods would further increase mainstream reach, failing to freak out the general public quite as much. Indeed, anecdotally speaking, restaurant menus seem to be unapologetically boasting strong, funky flavors.

One memorable moment came from a summer dinner at Cultura, where our large group was presented with a platter including a few tiny and aggressively fermented cucumbers, the deeply complex flavor of which I can still recall months later.

And while koji is perhaps best known for its work in sake and miso, over at H&F Burger, which recently opened at 77 Biltmore Ave., the chefs are growing the fungus on beef to safely age the meat in record time.

Burgers and big, bad steaks:First look at H&F Burger, opening in downtown Asheville

That brings me to another trend: In late 2018, international food and restaurant consulting firm Baum + Whiteman predicted the rise of lab-grown meat would have ranchers "running scared." Technically, that means meat grown from cells in a lab, which is more high-tech than the Impossible Burger, which is so well-loved thatrestaurants experienced shortages this year.

Local restaurants experienced Impossible Burger shortages in 2019.(Photo: Angeli Wright/awright@citizen-times.com)

I've yet to see real lab-grown meat anywhere, but steaks are ever more prolific in a town that used to have precious few. For example, a new steakhouse will open in 2020 in the Grove Arcade called AshevilleProper, a live-fire cooking concept courtesy of former Storm chef Owen McGlynn. I don't think ranchers are exactly running for the hills yet.

Still, acceptance of plant-based food is on the rise. Ingles dietitian Leah McGrath sees customers snapping up nondairy beverages, reformulated margarines and meat-free meatslike chickenless "nuggets." Expect to see more variety in plant-based foods, with oat milk becoming a standard non-dairy optionat cafes. Over at Blackbird Restaurant at47 Biltmore Ave., there's an entire vegan menu, including risotto made with hemp milk.

The Truffle Mushroom Risotto at The Blackbird in downtown Asheville features arborio risotto, local mushrooms, seasonal vegetables, hemp milk, nutritional yeast and cauliflower puree. It is listed under the vegan section of their menu. (Photo: ANGELI WRIGHT/ASHEVILLE CITIZEN TIMES)

At the same time, McGrath said, the high-protein, low-carb keto diet is likely to still gain traction this year, with more food companies loudly promoting keto-friendly products. They're even showing up in the frozen treat aisle, where shoppers can now find low carbohydrate "ice creams" with sugar alcohols, added protein and fiber.

An increasing desire to customize food to the diet du jour is making some restaurants rethink the way their menus arewritten.

"Unlimited customization may be gumming up service speed at fast-casual chains," said consulting group Baum + Whiteman's Michael Whiteman. Some restaurants are working to focus consumers attention on culturally relevant pre-set lifestyle bowls," marketed as keto or Whole 30-friendly, gluten-free and the like.

Some are toying with eliminating build-your-own bowls altogether, he said. "The lifestyle idea is spreading to pizza, so we predict that more chains (will) shift customers away from infinite invitations to choose individual ingredients."

Assembly-line production at Blaze Pizza.(Photo: Courtesy of Blaze Pizza.)

Blaze Pizza, a chain operation with a couple local stores, now offers "lifestyle" options, like keto and cauliflower crust. The independent 828 Family Pizzeria offers cauliflower crust, too.

But not so fast: Baum + Whiteman also predicts either sweet potatoes or winter squash will soon usurp cauliflower as the "in" vegetable.

More: Ramen, burgers and restaurant expansions: 23 notable Asheville restaurants opened in 2019

QSR Magazine, a publication geared toward the fast-casual dining industry, suggests curbing food waste will continue to trend upward in 2020, as consumers begin to consciously invest in more sustainable businesses.

The USDA states the United States wastes about66.5 million tons of food, which is more than any other country, except for Australia.The waste happens in various places, including on farm fields and in grocery stores, with more than 40% of the food tossed before consumers even touch it in restaurants and other food-service operations.

Inside dish: Inside dish: Thoughts on food waste heading into the holidays

QSR predicts more and more food service operations will work to reduce food waste with technology, including food dehydrators and digesters. Local chefs are beginning to take the zero-waste kitchen challenge seriously.

Restaurants like Green Sage and The Corner Kitchen have long used local composting service Danny's Dumpster to handle their compostable trash. And with many local stakeholders, chefs and other food service workers present at the recent Asheville Food Waste Solution Summit, expect to see even more efforts toward community composting and other landfill diversion techniques.

That's a trend we can get behind.

Mackensy Lunsford is an award-winning food writer, former professional line cook and one-time restaurant owner. Contact her at mlunsford@citizentimes.com.

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Oily fish and other foods that are rich inomega-3 fatty acids are supposed to help protect us from heart disease, so it seems unlikely that ancient Inuit hunters would have had poor cardiovascular health, given their marine-based diet. Yet surprisingly, scans of four mummified Inuits who died 500 years ago have revealed that they suffered from blocked arteries, just like millions of people living today.

Many of the unhealthy habits associated with modern lifestyles such as excessive sugar consumption and too much time sitting on sofas have contributed to the rise of cardiovascular disease, which is now the leading cause of death worldwide. In particular, atherosclerosis, which involves the build-up of fatty plaques in arteries, has become dangerously prevalent in wealthier countries.

In 2013, researchers examined 137 mummies from ancient civilizations in Egypt, Peru, and the Arctic, and were surprised to discover evidence of atherosclerosis in individuals who lived as long ago as 3100 BCE. However, none of the mummies involved in this study would have consumed a diet that was particularly high in omega-3, which is why researchersled by Ascension Healthcare in Wisconsin decided to look specifically at Inuit mummies.

Four specimens were obtained from the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, all of which were originally found on the island of Uunartaq, close to Greenland, in 1929. An analysis of dental and skeletal features revealed that the two male and two female mummies were all likely to have been between the ages of 18 and 30 when they died, while their clothes and other items found in their graves suggest that they lived in the 16th century.

Publishing their findings in the journal JAMA Network Open, the researchers explain that these individuals would have hunted from kayaks with spears, bows, and arrows for their diet of fish, birds, marine mammals, and caribou.

In spite of this diet, computed tomography (CT) scans of the mummies revealed that three of them suffered from calcified atheroma, which occurs when plaques of fatty material accumulate in arteries, causing them to harden and narrow, thereby restricting blood flow.

These plaques were remarkably similar to those seen in modern humans, and which regularly lead to fatal heart attacks and strokes by preventing blood flow around the heart and brain.

Whether or not this contributed to the Inuits deaths is impossible to tell, although the very fact that they suffered from atherosclerosis in spite of their fishy diet and vigorous lifestyle casts major doubt on any assumptions that modern lifestyles are responsible for the condition.

Exactly which factors led to the prevalence of atherosclerosis in this ancient Inuit population is also unknown, although the study authors suggest that it may have been caused by breathing in too much smoke from indoor fires.

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Almost every other year in the 2010s, an author has come out of left field and claimed the annual bestsellers top spot at the expense of the perennial contenders. It is either a first-time novelist going straight to No 1 (Gail Honeyman with Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine last year, EL James with all her Fifty Shades trilogy in 2012), or a former mega-seller returning with a new take on their old saga (Jamess reverse-angle Grey in 2015, JK Rowling and her co-writers script of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child in 2016).

This happened again in 2019, but with a double twist: a non-fiction title with two debut authors. Pinch of Nom by Kay Featherstone and Kate Allinson, a pair of weight-watching food bloggers from the Wirral, was always a favourite for supremacy after it broke records in March for first-week sales. The spin-off Food Planner also makes the top 50, and the pair are bound to get a third title well up the chart by the end of the year as their follow-up, Pinch of Nom: Everyday Light, came out on 12 December.

Their success reflects a reconfiguration of the domestic sector, with a falling away of celebrity chefs recipe books (Jamie Olivers Veg is the sole survivor at No 9) and the rise of offerings centred on weight loss or fitness, including Michael Mosleys The Fast 800 (23) and titles just outside the chart by Joe Wicks and Tom Kerridge. Books about housework or home organisation are on the rise too, as shown by the remarkable sales for two books (5, 17) by Mrs Hinch Sophie Hinchcliffe promising to shine your sink and soothe your soul. Published a fortnight apart in the spring, Pinch of Nom and Hinch Yourself Happy both owe much to their authors social media presence Mrs Hinch has an eye-popping 2.9 million followers on Instagram.

Also mingling in the charts elite with the usual suspects Oliver, David Walliams, Lee Child, Jeff Kinney are representatives of another trend, the insider memoirs of people in stressful jobs: Adam Kay (6, 15) and Christie Watson (47) on hospital medicine, the Secret Barrister (25) on the law, Ant Middleton (19) on the army, and Peter Crouch (on the charts subs bench at 62) on football. Tellingly, the most popular examples of job lit outsold the top new celebrity memoirs Elton Johns Me (38), Billy Connollys Tall Tales (43) in a defeat of the famous by the non-famous that mirrors Pinch of Noms triumph in cookbooks.

The heftier, more scholarly end of the factual spectrum, by contrast, continued to flounder commercially. If Yuval Noah Hararis Sapiens (50) one of only two translated works in the list were not still hanging on five years after publication, Bill Brysons The Body (39) would be the lone standard bearer for the kind of non-fiction that wins prizes.

In fiction, meanwhile, a peculiar division is discernible in the top 50, whereby all the charts crime novels are by men an indication of the waning of the largely female-driven psychological thriller and, perhaps more surprisingly, childrens fiction (from Philip Pullman to Walliamss five titles to picture books) is a male preserve too. Conversely, no books classified as general and literary fiction are written by men, and the range of work by women is striking: Heather Morriss hugely popular historical novel (2), more BDSM sex from James (31), smart commercial fiction by Liane Moriarty, Jojo Moyes and Sophie Kinsella (7, 10, 40), Eleanor Oliphant still doing more than fine in paperback (14), and the award-winning literary novelists Sally Rooney, Kate Atkinson and Madeline Miller (13, 41, 49).

Plus, of course, the joint 2019 Booker winner Margaret Atwood, who scored with both the TV tie-in edition of The Handmaids Tale (37) and its victorious sequel. The Testaments (12) is the highest placed (adult) novel published this year and has quite possibly racked up the biggest sales ever by a winner in hardback, with 272,251 copies sold so far.

Among other reasons to be cheerful are the performances of writers who, like the chart-topping double act, were little known a year ago. These include self-styled grubby artist Charlie Mackesy, whose sleeper hit The Boy, The Mole, the Fox and the Horse (20) took the Waterstones prize, memoirist Raynor Winn (35) and Greta Thunberg (32). Six years after Malala Yousafzais I Am Malala, the Swedish teenager matched her in producing a bestseller as well as in addressing the UN.

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Q: I'VE just found out I'm pregnant what's the safest, least toxic diet for me and my baby?

A: Dr Lida Chatzi, an associate professor of preventive medicine at the University of Southern California, has just co-authored a study into diet and levels of environmental contaminants in mothers and children. She says: "During gestation and early development, the foetus and the child, respectively, are vulnerable to the effects of environmental chemicals. A balanced diet during these periods is also critical for optimal nutritional status, but what to eat, and how much, are critical questions.

"We conducted the largest study to date examining the association between diet and levels of 33 environmental contaminants in mothers and their children. The study was conducted within the Human Early-Life Exposome (HELIX) project, a study including 1,000 pregnant women and their children who were followed up to the age of six-to-10 years across six European countries: France, Greece, Lithuania, Norway, Spain and the United Kingdom.

"We found that the higher the fish consumption, the higher the levels of toxic persistent chemicals in the blood for both pregnant women and their children. The chemicals included polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and the toxic metals arsenic and mercury.

"We also assessed the effect of dietary recommendations for fish on maternal and child levels of environmental chemicals: specifically, up to three servings of fish per week for pregnant women and up to two servings per week for children. We found that, if the recommendation was followed, it resulted in lower levels of PFAS, arsenic and mercury than if they were exceeding the dietary recommendations.

"In general, women should eat a variety of types of fish each week and avoid consumption of raw fish and large predatory fish, such as king mackerel, swordfish, shark, and tilefish. Given that there's variation of levels of pollutants potentially contained within fish, women should be aware of dietary recommendations, and adhere to guidelines.

"We also showed fruit consumption was associated with increased levels of four organophosphate pesticides metabolites, measured in urine samples for both pregnant women and children. On the other hand, children who ate organic food more than once per week had lower levels of pesticides metabolites in their urine, compared to children who reported not eating organic food.

"The choice of organic over conventionally grown fruits can contribute to lower exposures of pesticides and other environmental pollutants, while retaining the health benefits of fruit and vegetable consumption. We believe the results carry important public health messages related to the avoidance of excess exposure to environmental contaminants with toxic effects on humans."

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TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (WTHI)-2019 is winding down and soon 2020 will be here.

For many of us, the new year means new goals and that might mean changing our eating habits..but it's not always easy to achieve.

According to a survey,last year's top resolutions were eating healthy, getting more exercise, and saving more money.

Recent studies show that just 8% of people who set goals, achieve it. Meanwhile, 80% fail to keep it.

News 10 caught up with Blake Kramer, an exercise science major and manager at 5th Street Nutrition in Terre Haute.

He tells us thathealth-related resolutions are often broken because of a lack of consistency.

"Once you get to your goal you're going to go back to eating the way you did. You're not gonna cut your lawn and not expect it to stop growing right? So you have to keep reiterating to your body what you're trying to do," Kramer said.

The good news is there are ways you can successfully achieve your New Year's resolution. Here's how:

Start by being realistic, the first way to fall short is by making your goal unattainable.

Plan ahead... don't make your goal the day of.

Make a pros and cons list.

Reward yourself, track progress and most importantly stick to it.

"People want tosee drastic changes and I think that's not just a lot of people I think that's almost everybody but I think it's more important to set smaller goals and achieve so it gives your body and your mind something to achieve quicker," Kramer explained.

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