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Weve all seen Mike Tysons insane sparring videos. The 53-year-old is in phenomenal shape.

Theres no secret formula to Iron Mikes success he trains hard, eats right, and still does the same intense workouts he did in his younger days.

If the Mike Tyson way works for Mike Tyson, will it work for everyone?

YouTuber Will Tennyson wanted to find out.

Tennyson loves to follow training and eating regimens of famous athletes and actors and has done 24-hour challenges following Mark Wahlberg and bodybuilder Renaldo Gairys routines.

Tennysons plan was to eat just like Mike around 3,000-4,000 calories and do running, boxing technique training, and calisthenics to get into fighting shape.

His day started with a 4-mile jog at 4 am. Tyson likes to run early while his opponents are sleeping.

Tennyson completed the run and somehow managed to go back to bed until 10 am. How thats possible, I have no idea. Once Im up and the adrenaline kicks in after a run, Im not sleeping for a while.

After shoving down a breakfast of oatmeal, milk, and daily vitamins, Tennyson moves onto sparring training.

He completes 10 rounds of sparring for 2 minutes, each with a 45-second rest in between rounds.

After the 10 rounds, Tennyson moves to a high-rep, low-weight workout which includes:

2,000 squats 500 triceps extensions 500 pushups 500 shrugs with 30 kilos (65 pounds) 500 neck crunches

Tyson spreads out the workout throughout the day, and so does Tennyson, choosing to do 50 reps for his first session.

Lunch is 150 grams of white rice, a 9 oz. chicken breast, and a tall glass of orange juice. After lunch, its back to sparring.

After 6 more rounds, its time for a snack 6 bananas and a protein shake.

It seems a little bit overkill, admits the YouTuber, but I definitely need the carbs right now.

Tennyson finishes up the rest of the workout, eats a dinner of 9-ounce sirloin steak, pasta, and fruit juice.

The meal digests for a while, and Tennyson completes the final workout for the day 30 minutes on an exercise bike.

Im very sore. My neck is super stiff, and I know Im going to be feeling it for a few days after this, he admits.

[via Mens Health]

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Chris Illuminati is a 5-time published author and recovering a**hole who writes about running, parenting, and professional wrestling. Reach out to him on Instagram & Twitter.

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Simply put, this diet involves matching a person with food best suited for their blood type. For example, its recommended that someone with type A blood eat primarily soy, seafood, and vegetables

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Have you ever wanted to lose weight but find the vast choice of available diets confusing? Or maybe youve tried dieting, but it never works. It seems that theres a new fad or type of food available every week, so let us guide you through some of the more popular and effective ones.

The first thing to consider when talking about dieting is what type it is. You might have heard of vegan diets (cutting out all animal products, including eggs and milk) or of going vegetarian, but what about other common ones?

This has gained popularity over the last few years and is primarily considered a natural way to eat. In a paleo type of diet, processed food and dairy are out, and grass-fed and organic food is in. Think of it as being an ethical omnivore.

Simply put, this diet involves matching a person with food best suited for their blood type. For example, its recommended that someone with type A blood eat primarily soy, seafood, and vegetables in order to lose weight.

Another veggie-friendly diet type, this promotes the use of oil as an alternative to salad dressings and marinades, as well as cutting back on (not eliminating) red meat from your daily meals.

Some of these diets come from well-known companies, others are based on a type mentioned above, but all have been proven effective in some way.

Coming from perhaps the most famous weight loss company in the world, this diet involves a point system. Every type of food has points appropriate to its nutritional value, and the idea is to eat a set number of points a day/week to meet your desired weight.

The keto diet is one of the more popular diets on this list, as various celebrities champion it. Effectively, it involves a high fat intake and a very, very low amount of carbohydrates.

In a nutshell, this diet involves completely cutting out certain food groups of your choosing for a solid thirty days. If you feel better after the month, keep avoiding those foods. Otherwise, try eliminating something else for another thirty days.

By all accounts, losing weight just got easier with this modern diet plan. It takes the form of two phases and is designed to make your body generate more hormones in order to burn fat. This diet emphasizes food and drinks with high antioxidants, such as green tea.

Diets based on a different countrys food culture are gaining popularity these days, and this is one of them. A macrobiotic diet is based on the Asian concept of balance. For example, if you have a meal of fish, you should also include food from the land on your plate, such as vegetables. Easy!

It almost goes without saying, but diets are very much an individual thing. What works for one may not work for another. Even so, there are some diets you might be best to avoid altogether.

Replace one meal every day for two weeks with...mushrooms. Just mushrooms. Suffice to say; anyone would get bored of this very quickly. Plus, it deprives your body of nutrients since youre eating an awful lot of mushrooms and not a lot of anything else.

You guessed it. Willingly put a tapeworm inside your body to help you lose weight! Obviously, this is a terrible, disgusting idea.

In theory, drinking nothing but juice and smoothies for a (little) while is an excellent way to detox while still getting vitamins and nutrients. However, many of these diets promote lengthy fasts - anything up to two weeks, in some cases. Two days, perhaps, but not much longer than that.

When we talk about healthy eating, a balanced diet is the best way to succeed in maintaining an ideal weight. However, bear in mind that sometimes food culture dictates whats best for us. For example, a typical Colombian diet is carbohydrate-heavy, while an Australian diet favors barbecued meat and fresh smoothies. If none of the above diets take your fancy, why not try following the diet from another country? You might be surprised at the results!

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You may have put on a pound or two or 19 during the quarantine (hey, we all can relate to finding comfort in a chocolate babka or a chewy loaf of homemade sourdough!). But now that some states are starting to open up and people are emerging, bleary-eyed, from their lockdowns hoping to get back into shape, new diets are starting to bounce around social media again. And one of the buzziest is the lazy keto diet.

Both lazy keto and its sloppier cousin dirty keto have been trending, and it may be because while many people are interested in losing their quarantine weight, they've also lost patience with the strict keto, which can feel like it requires more math than an AP calculus class.

"During the quarantine, I didn't hear anyone ask about any fad diets," points out Bonnie Taub-Dix, RDN, author of Read It Before You Eat It: Taking You from Label to Table. "I'm not a fan of any keto diet, but that doesnt mean it doesnt work for some people who are doing it with the guidance of a dietitian."

With a standard keto diet, you have to pay very close attention to every gram of food you eat, in an attempt to take in roughly 70 to 75% of your calories from fat, 20% from protein, and as little as 5 to 10% from carbs, which puts your body into a state of ketosis, where it starts burning fat for energy. This means a whole lot of meat, butter, cream, and avocado, but precious few fruits and vegetables.

But with lazy keto, you only need to focus on one number: your daily intake of carbs, which according to the buzz, should be about 20 to 50 grams per day. The rest? As long as you generally try to eat more fats than proteins and you stick to relatively healthy food choices, the percentages dont matter and you can put away your calculator. (But focus on whole foodsif you want to try to lose weight eating greasy fast food, youre looking at dirty keto, which no dietitian we know would ever recommend.)

Though the name is new, the idea of lazy keto has been around for a while, says nutritionist DJ Blatner, RDN, the author of The Superfood Swap.This is actually what many people do when they say they are following a 'keto' diet, she explains. Most people arent counting all their macros, theyre just trying to eat low carb/high fat. They hear about the keto plan from a friend and create their own version.

Well, sure, says Blatner, but thats more likely due to the fact that youll be paying closer attention to what you eat rather than any keto magic (without paying attention to the fat/protein ratio, you will not likely achieve ketosis). You can lose weight this way if the portions of protein are moderate and there are low-carb veggies included for nutrition, fiber, and fullness, she says. But truthfully, once people start paying attention to what they're eating, no matter what type of diet they follow, they tend to lose weight compared to when they werent paying attention at all. Plus, if you're cooking more at home rather than eating out in restaurants or chowing down processed food, you'll likely experience some weight loss.

Lazy or not, slashing your intake of carbs to as little as 20g a day (say, a cup of blueberries or a small green salad) is always a risk, says Blatner. "Carbohydrates are important to the health of our gut because they feed the good bacteria," she explains. "When you limit carbs and eat excess protein and fat, you potentially throw off gut bacteria, which can be linked to everything from digestive problems to immunity impairments to mood fluctuations. It's also a challenge to get enough phytonutrients to help keep cells healthy, strong, and disease-free.

Taub-Dix agrees that keeping carbs to such a tiny percent of your diet is problematic. "You have to think of the value of the vitamins, minerals, and fiber you get from healthy carbs, not to mention the emotional satiety," she says.

Americans do tend to overeat simple carbs, especially the refined, white, processed carbs of breads, wraps, buns, pasta, rice, crackers, pretzels, pizza, cakes, and cookies, says Blatner. Swapping those out for whole-food versions, including fruits, vegetables, and small portions of whole grains such as oatmeal, quinoa, wild rice, and bulgar, is a great way start. It might not technically be "lazy," but achieving a healthy lifestyle rarely is.

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There is no such thing as a healthy diet that will work for everyone. People respond to food in such idiosyncratic ways that everybody needs a personalised eating plan, according to results from a study that looked at the effects of genetics, the microbiome and lifestyle factors on metabolism.

The study fed 1102 healthy people identical meals for two weeks and measured their metabolic responses. These varied wildly, with up to tenfold differences, meaning that a healthy diet for one person could be unhealthy for another. Everyone reacts differently to identical foods, says Tim Spector at Kings College London.

He and his colleagues measured levels of glucose, insulin and triglyceride fats in the volunteers blood. High levels of all three after eating are a risk factor for obesity, while people who show glucose and triglyceride spikes after eating are more likely to develop cardiovascular disease and diabetes.

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The team also tracked the volunteers sleep, exercise and hunger levels, and took stool samples to assay their gut microbes. Spector, a geneticist, says he expected to find a strong genetic component to the metabolic responses, but actually saw very little. The volunteers included several pairs of identical twins and even they showed very different responses to the same meal.

That told us straight away that genes dont play a major part, says Spector. How we respond to a fatty meal has virtually no genetic component at all, for example. His team found that only about 30 per cent of glucose response is genetic.

Other factors such as gut microbes, circadian rhythms and sleep and exercise are more important, says Spector. The timing of meals also matters. Some people metabolise food better in the morning while others saw no difference in their ability to metabolise food throughout the day.

This suggests that it would be more effective to design a tailored heathy-eating programme for individuals rather than recommending a one-size-fits-all diet.

The results can be surprising, says Spector. He says he ate tuna and sweetcorn sandwiches for years thinking they were good for him, but recently found out that his metabolism responds very badly to them.

Spector and his team have also developed an AI tool to predict peoples responses to food, based on their genes, gut microbes, exercise and sleep patterns and metabolic responses to food. A UK-based company called Zoe has turned this into a consumer test and smartphone app that will be rolled out in the US next month and the UK later this year.

Its a very exciting study, says Bernadette Moore at the University of Leeds, UK. The really significant factor for me is that they did it in twins, so they had a really powerful design to examine the genetics. However, there is still more work to be done to fully understand individual responses to food, she says.

The study findings are impressive, says Yiannis Mavrommatis at St Marys University, London. Its initial findings will shape the future of nutrition science.

Journal reference: Nature Medicine, DOI: 10.1038/s41591-020-0934-0

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The Candida Diet, suggested to help resolve yeast infection symptoms and starve the sugars that supporters of the diet claim feed Candida, has been around for decades. But does the diet actually work and is it safe for you to start on your own? Here's everything you need to know about the Candida Diet, including basics on Candida overgrowth itself and foods to avoid.

According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), Candida is a yeast that normally lives on the skin and inside the body (more specifically in the mouth, throat, gut, and vagina), and typically does not cause any problems. If Candida grows out of control and there is an overgrowth, it can cause the fungal infection candidiasis. Although candidiasis can develop in several areas of the body, most people are familiar with candidiasis in the vagina that is commonly referred to as a vaginal yeast infection. The most common species of Candida that causes infections is called Candida albicans.

Signs and symptoms of vaginal candidiasis can include itching, soreness, pain/discomfort while urinating, pain during sex, and abnormal vaginal discharge. Women who are pregnant, using hormonal contraceptives, have diabetes, have a weakened immune system, or have recently taken antibiotics are more likely to develop vaginal candidiasis. Since taking antibiotics is a frequent cause, the CDC advises women to only take antibiotics when prescribed and exactly as your healthcare professional tells you.

The Candida Diet is essentially a low-carbohydrate, low-sugar, anti-inflammatory diet that proponents claim can help promote good gut health and eliminate the sugars that potentially feed Candida. The diet is only intended to be followed temporarily and it is advised to reintroduce foods slowly and gradually once the diet is finished. Although the Candida Diet has been around for decades, the research on it is very sparse and there are no definitive findings to confirm the diet's effectiveness. The diet itself should not be used as a substitute for a consultation with a physician or qualified healthcare professional.

Proponents of the diet claim that Candida thrives on sugar, and although research is limited on this, findings from a 2017 study suggest that higher glucose concentrations may indeed promote Candida growth. The Candida diet also restricts gluten because of thoughts that it may damage the intestinal lining, but there is no current evidence to support this for individuals who do not have celiac disease.

Dairy products are also excluded from the diet due to an unproven theory that the sugar found in dairy products (a.k.a. lactose) can potentially increase acidity in the mouth and stimulate Candida overgrowth. And despite lack of evidence, foods with high mold content, preservatives, pesticides, or artificial ingredients are also restricted on the Candida Diet.

Despite lack of research, the Candida Diet itself is quite healthy, may provide a more nutrient-rich diet than many regularly consume, and is likely safe for most people to follow. By eating more non-starchy vegetables, boosting your fiber intake, drinking more water, eliminating refined sugars and processed foods, the diet itself may have anti-inflammatory benefits that are beneficial regardless of whether or not it can truly "cure" candidiasis. If you do chose to follow the Candida Diet, I recommend starting out slowly and removing things gradually from your daily routine. Start by limiting refined sugar or caffeine, and then work your way down the list. Remember that this diet is meant to be used short-term and that it is not intended to be a substitute for a consultation with your physician or healthcare provider.

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So, dear masters of spring superfoods, are you ready for your next challenge? Yes, yes you are. With summer rapidly approaching, now is the time to embrace these plant-based superfoods that are ideal for summer meals. Read on, and get excited for some eats that are wildly tasty yet brimming with wholesomeness.

You know the feeling: An annoying email from your boss or a spat with a family member over the foibles of face shields (thank you, 2020) and a day pivots from A-OK to awful. And then you dip into a bowl of fresh strawberries at their peak ripeness and all is well with the world. More reason to munch away? They contain vitamin A, C, and one of the highest natural sources of folates. They also contain flavonoids, anthocyanins and phenolic acids, which are compounds shown to reduce the risk of cardiovascular complications, cancers and other conditions, says Mark Windle, BSc, RD, nutritionist for Fitness Savvy. The phenol compounds in strawberries detoxify free radicals thus preventing oxidative stress on the body and reduce cellular damage. The strawberry's antioxidant properties mean that diets high in them may protect the body from damage to the coronary artery vessel walls, which would otherwise make cholesterol plaques form easier, and cause the arteries to fur up.

Juicy, light, refreshing, bright, acidic. These are just a few of our favorite words to describe everyones favorite summer vegetable, ahem, fruit. Tomatoes are high in vitamins, high in water and have valuable fiber. Foods that are high in water and fiber can help you stay full for several hours and they help keep you regular. If youre trying to lose weight, tomatoes are very low in calories, says Amanda A. Kostro Miller, RD, LDN, who serves on the advisory board for FitterLiving. On the antioxidant front, tomatoes also deliver big time. Tomatoes contain carotenoids [a type of antioxidants] which can help reduce your risk of macular degeneration and reduce your risk of certain cancers. They work to reduce damage from free radicals.One of the most notable carotenoids in tomatoes is lycopene. Tomatoes also contain vitamin C, which plays a role in immunity, collagen rebuilding for fortifying muscles/bones, and aiding in iron absorption.

You dont have to tell us twice to eat guac and cut up extra slices to stack onto burgers, hummus sandwiches, and, yes, toast, but it may very well be a good idea to find more excuses to eat avocados (think: slip them in smoothies, add them to salads, slice them atop your grain bowl) given their nutritional prowess. They are high in fat, but as part of a healthy plant-based diet, remember three-quarters of it is as monounsaturates (shown to prevent heart diseaseand regulate blood pressure), says Windle. Avocados are also a great source of the antioxidant vitamin E (another cardioprotective nutrient), and higher in soluble fiber than most other fruitssoluble fiber helps reduce LDL cholesterol levels which are the type that lines the arteries. Whilst the jury is still out on whether specifically eating avocados directly reduces LDL cholesterol, intake has been shown to increase the favorable HDL: LDL cholesterol level. For more on avocados and fats, read this article.

In the summer, were talking cherries, blueberries, and blackberries, and in addition to being one heck of a summer fruit salad trio, they also happen to be nutritional powerhouses. Dark berries have been shown to slow the rate of cognitive decline. Antioxidants in dark berries help fight oxidative stress on the body, which can happen in your brain. Antioxidants inhibit the release of pro-inflammatory markers like cytokines and CRP, and work against harmful reactive oxygen species in the body, remarks Kostro Miller. Diets that are rich in antioxidants can help reduce pain (i.e. joint pain), help your body function more effectively and may even help preserve cognitive function in the long term, she continues, adding that one study found that the equivalent of one cup of blueberries per day improved cognition in older adults better than a placebo.

Its summer, live a little and have those berries or that oatmeal with some creamy dollops of yogurt. Forager Project Cashewmilk Yogurtis one of my favorite summertime superfoods, offers Jenna Gorham, RD of Gorham Consulting Group. They use live and active cultures, offering plant-based probiotics. Probioticscan support a healthy immune system as well as healthy digestion. [It] tastes great in smoothies, fresh berry parfaits, and summer dips and sauces. For more great yogurt recs, check out our review of 12 dairy-free yogurts.

Just because youve ditched fish, doesnt mean you cant find ways to get omega-3s into your plant-based diet with a little extra effort. Hello, walnuts. Large amounts of omega-3 rich foods are trickier to incorporate in the vegan diet, not only because rich sources are harder to come by but also because in plant sources it is in the form of alpha-linolenic acid (ALA) - whereas the positive effects studied are primarily in eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), normally found in marine oils (oily fish, etc), says Windle. ALA found in walnuts, can be used by the body however to make EPA, which in turn can convert to DHA. In a study by Chiu et al (2018)of 100 woman attending a fertility clinic who were struggling to conceive, those who had higher levels of blood omega-3 fatty acids (seen as a marker of dietary intake) had higher rates of live birth, he adds. Windle is a fan of adding walnuts to summer salads or adding them into a vegan banana bread recipe, like this one from actor Mayim Bialik.

Everything's better with a little crunch (sorry, creamy peanut butter fans). I love using Crunchsters sprouted mung bean snacks on all of my summer saladstry the Bacon flavor (it's vegan!) on coleslaw or broccoli salad! It adds the perfect flavor and crunch, states Gorham. Because Crunchsters are pure mungs beans, they offer a natural source of plant-based protein and fiber. Sprouting grains, beans, and seeds allow nutrients and antioxidants to become more available, offering more nutrition, she continues. For more on sprouted grains, check out this scientific review.

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In a world of diets and detoxes, cleanses and cutting carbs, Intuitive Eating stands out as a different kind of diet.

In reality, Intuitive Eating (IE) isnt a diet at all. According to The Original Intuitive Eating Pros, IE is a self-care eating framework that integrates instinct, emotion, and rational thought.

Essentially, Intuitive Eating helps cultivate an awareness of the hunger, fullness and satisfaction that go on inside of our bodies. It helps take our focus inward instead of dwelling on external factors that dictate how we should eat.

IE is a weight-inclusive approach that helps ensure that both our physical and mental needs are met while removing obstacles such as food rules, false beliefs about eating, and misconceptions surrounding dieting.

This framework was created in 1995 by two dietitians, Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch, and has since been studied extensively with more than 100 studies in the past 25 years. To put it simply, IE works.

IE is based on 10 principles that guide the transition to a more inwardly guided eating pattern:

One important factor to recognize is that we were all born with the wisdom to eat with trust. As infants we eat until we are full and then simply stop eating.

Somewhere along the path to adulthood, most of us lose that simple approach. The transition back isnt going to be overnight, but slowly retraining our brains to work with our bodies, instead of against them, provides an approach to eating that can be maintained for the long haul.

There are a few common misconceptions about IE that are worth addressing mainly, that it promotes eating whatever you want, whenever you want and does not take nutrition into consideration.

While IE does allow you to eat all foods, the idea is not to live solely on pizza, ice cream and soda. Many people fear that if they give themselves unconditional permission to eat those foods, they love they will lose all control and gain weight.

However, as with many things, when less healthy foods are put off-limits and restricted, they become more desirable. If we allow ourselves to eat those foods when we truly are craving them, we wont feel constant cravings for them, and they will become less desirable over time.

The key is to commit to eating foods that make you feel good, which includes foods that give our bodies good energy and nutrients as well as foods that taste good.

If you are interested in learning more about IE, I highly suggest viewing The Original Intuitive Eating Pros website and purchasing their books and/or workbooks.

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There is a lot of debate around what is the best time for exercising for weight loss and whether you should do cardio workouts in a fasted state or have some food to energise your body. A research called "Body composition changes associated with fasted versus non-fasted aerobic exercise" published in the Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition was trying to find an answer for this and divided a group of 20 woman into two groups: 10 participants exercised after an overnight fast while the other half of the group was given something to eat before the workout.

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Training consisted of one hour of steady-state aerobic exercise performed three days per week. The subjects of the research were provided with customised dietary plans designed to induce a caloric deficit. Nutritional counselling was also provided throughout the study period to help ensure the participants didn't cheat and eat more food than they were supposed to have.

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This is what the research paper has to say about the results: "Both groups showed a significant loss of weight and fat mass from baseline, but no significant between-group differences were noted in any outcome measure. These findings indicate that body composition changes associated with aerobic exercise in conjunction with a hypocaloric diet are similar regardless whether or not an individual is fasted prior to training."

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In short: if you want to lose weight, it doesn't matter if you do cardio fasted or not, as long as you keep a calorie deficit and exercise regularly. As the research shows, it doesn't have to be every day either, although the participants were subjected to 1-hour long workout sessions each time which is not just just a short session for sure.

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It is worth noting that the research chose a peculiar way to test the theory by giving test subjects a meal either immediately before or after the exercise session, preventing us from finding out whether a sustained high-metabolic state after the workout would've helped shed fat even more or not. The sample size was also rather small (only 20 women were tested) and the gender ratio was also anything but balanced.

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Taking this information into account, if you want to maximise weight loss doing cardio exercising, you are best off doing a workout early in the morning and having some food immediately after, preferably some protein and some carbs to aid muscle recovery. Drinking some water before, during and after the session is also beneficial and further speed up metabolism naturally.

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In research published in the journal Nutrients scientists at the Institute of Nutrition and Food Technology at the University of Grenada questioned over 7,500 men and women across Spain(37% were aged below 35 years, 70.6% were female) via a web-based questionnaire on their dietary habits during the first three weeks of Spains lockdown period.

The results outlined healthier dietary behaviours during the confinement when compared to previous habits. Participants decreased their intake of fried foods, snacks, fast foods, red meat, pastries or sweet beverages, but increased MedDiet-related foods such as olive oil, vegetables, fruits or legumes during the confinement.

The studys authors said this dietary improvement, if sustained in the long-term, could have a positive impact on the prevention of chronic diseases and COVID-19-related complications.

Spain has been one of the European countries, besides the UK and Italy, to have been particularly hard hit by the coronavirus pandemic. A State of alarm was declared in the county on 14 March 2020 and the population was ordered to stay at home for four weeks.

The researchers denied the shift to a healthier Med diet among respondents during the lockdown was the result of a lack of availability of other foods.

The reality is that it was difficult to find some specific foods such as chicken in some (not all) supermarkets/grocery stores at the beginning of the confinement, but in general -- only 28% of participants declared to have had any difficulty in finding specific type of foods --all types of foods were available during the confinement, not only those associated to the MedDiet which could be considered the healthiest ones,Celia Rodrguez-Prez, one of the studys authors told FoodNavigator.

The improvement in dietary behaviours was not only associated with the food choices but also with cooking type or the increment of cooking frequency.

Will these trends stick? The healthy dietary habits tended to decrease after the first three weeks of confinement, according to the study. However, that trend was not statistically significant, said Rodrguez-Prez.

We could have had a better overview of this if the questionnaire had been opened for longer but this was not the main objective of the project. We wanted to know the real impact at the beginning of that novel situation. So, it is difficult to predict the demands in the future. Most probably the frequency of cooking will decrease when people come back to work daily and this will probably have an impact in the type of cooking that people will use and also in the number of meals out of home that usually is associated with unhealthy food choices, especially in the youngest population.

She added that the main goal of the researchers now is to raise awareness of the necessity of maintaining the healthy behaviours that we started during the confinement to turn them into habits.

This is important since the role of the Mediterranean Diet in preventing/ameliorating COVID-19-related complications seems to be connected, she said.

Changes in Dietary Behaviours during the COVID-19 Outbreak Confinement in the Spanish COVIDiet Study

Nutrients

Authors: Celia Rodrguez-Prez, Esther Molina-Montes, Vito Verardo, Reyes Artacho, Beln Garca-Villanova, Eduardo Jess Guerra-Hernndezand Mara Dolores Ruz-Lpez

https://doi.org/10.3390/nu12061730

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In the early 2000s, Dan Buettner embarked on a mission to determine what specific aspects of lifestyle and environment help humans live longer. He teamed up with National Geographic and the National Institute of Aging on his quest, and through research, they were able to identify five areas with the highest percentage of centenarians (i.e. a person who is 100 years old or older). Known as the Blue Zones, these areas also have low rates of chronic diseases including heart disease, diabetes, and cancer. Buettner and his team of anthropologists, epidemiologists, and researchers traveled to these particular areas to study the lifestyle characteristics of the people who lived in these Blue Zones. From there, the "Blue Zone" diet became of interest to help people outside of these locations practice that way of life. Here's everything you need to know about the Blue Zones, including diet recommendations and more.

Although the Blue Zones are all over the world, they share quite a few commonalities. After studying the Blue Zone populations, Buettner and his team narrowed down nine evidence-based common denominators among all of the world's centenarians. Known as the "Power 9," these factors are said to be the most influential in promoting longevity in these Blue Zone groups.

Research suggests that a strong mechanism behind the longevity and reduction of chronic disease in Blue Zone people is the anti-inflammatory benefits of their dietary choices. While these centenarians aren't necessarily completely vegan, their diets do have a predominant focus on plants.

Vegetables, especially homegrown, are a huge emphasis for Blue Zone people and provide a ton of vitamins, minerals, fiber, and antioxidant benefits. Beans and lentils are strong plant-based sources of protein in these populations. Similarly to vegetables, legumes also provide a ton of fiber which has benefits ranging from reducing risk of cardiovascular disease to helping control blood sugar levels. Healthy fats, such as olive oil, are used in several of the Blue Zone regions and provide a slew of heart-healthy fatty acids and antioxidants.

Blue zone people limit their consumption of red meat, and even only enjoy small portions of fish about three times per week. These populations do still indulge in moderation regarding sweets and other foods, but they eat sensibly and don't overindulge. By maintaining moderation and balance with food choices, especially following rules such as the Okinawans do with the hara hachi bu principle, weight stays controlled and obesity is not as prevalent to fuel chronic disease.

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Based on the "Power 9" principle of plant slant that the Blue Zone regions embrace, we've put together a food list that can help you get started on eating the Blue Zone way.

If you're looking to adopt some of the Blue Zone diet and lifestyle habits, these resources can help get you started.

The Blue Zones

$4.99

The Blue Zones Solution

$11.69

Good Housekeeping Mediterranean Diet

Ikaria

$23.91

The Complete Mediterranean Cookbook

$21.99

The Blue Zones of Happiness

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