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Baking Soda May Reduce Premature Death Risk

Baking Soda May Reduce Premature Death Risk

Today’s blog is republished from my friends at TheNutritionWatchDog and TheAlternativeDaily… leading publishers of very useful daily alternative health tips. Please keep in mind that if you struggle with your weight, you ALWAYS want to prioritize non-starchy vegetables above fruits… and be sure to watch out for fruits high in fructose.

By Stephen Seifert, TheAlternativeDaily.com

Research published this month in the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology found that having balanced baking soda, or bicarbonate, levels in your body could reduce your chances of an early death.

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The study examined data compiled in the Health, Aging and Body Composition Study for 2,287 participants. Participants were healthy adults who, at the onset of the study in 1997, were between the ages of 70 and 79, and were followed for approximately 10 years. Survival data were gathered through February 2014.

Baking Soda May Reduce Premature Death Risk What did they find?

Study author Dr. Kalani Raphael, associate professor and nephrology and hypertension specialist at the University of Utah, and colleagues investigated pH, carbon dioxide and bicarbonate in association with long-term survival. According to the University of Utah press release, “Critically ill patients with severe acid-base abnormalities have a very low likelihood of surviving their illness, but it’s unclear whether more subtle changes in the body’s acid-base status have an effect on the longevity of relatively healthy older people.”

Raphael and colleagues found that low levels of bicarbonate may be linked to an increased risk for premature death by 24 percent. Sodium bicarbonate assists your body in balancing pH levels, possibly extending life. “What we found was that generally healthy older people with low levels of bicarbonate had a higher risk of death,” Raphael said. “Adding the pH measurement into the equation didn’t change the results, which is important because pH is not routinely measured.”

The study’s findings may assist clinicians in better assessing a patient’s risk of premature death by analyzing their blood bicarbonate concentrations more closely. Clinicians can recommend dietary adjustments to patients with low bicarbonate concentrations to optimize health.

What does it mean for me?

How do you get more baking soda in your life? Surprisingly, the answer has nothing to do with that yellow box in your fridge fighting odors. If you want to balance your pH levels by getting more sodium bicarbonate in your diet, eating more fruits and vegetables is the key.

Fruits and vegetables high in potassium and bicarbonate will have a negative potential renal acid load (PRAL) score. This represents the amount of acid produced by the kidneys after metabolism. The higher the negative, the more potassium and bicarbonate they will provide, potentially reducing your risk of premature death, according to the study.

Are you eating enough fruits and vegetables to keep a healthy pH balance?

—Stephen Seifert, TheAlternativeDaily.com

 

Stephen Seifert is a writer, professor, adventurer and a health & fitness guru. His flair for travel and outdoor adventure allows him to enjoy culture and traditions different than his own. A healthy diet, routine fitness and constant mental development is the cornerstone to Stephen’s life.

(The original article source is here)

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How Much Resistance Is Enough Resistance?

When it comes to SANE eating, you can do as much or as little as you’d like depending on your goals. However, smarter exercise is a bit more binary. We’re either using enough resistance to exercise our clog-clearing type 2b muscle fibers, or we’re not. Less resistance doesn’t work our type 2b muscle fiber less. It doesn’t work them at all. So when it comes to exercise, we are either using enough resistance to trigger a dramatic clog-clearing hormonal response, or we’re not. There’s no in between.

This physiological fact is why it is so important to make sure we’re not just exercising less. We must exercise less, smarter. The smarter part is key, and is all about using as much resistance as you safely can. We must push ourselves to the absolute brink. That’s why we only exercise for ten to twenty minutes per week. It’s not because we’re lazy. It’s because the type of exercise we’re doing is so challenging that it is physically impossible to do it frequently or for a long time.

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To illustrate this point, the researchers who wrote Body by Science put together this helpful video that captures the level of intensity/resistance needed to experience the long-term benefits of smarter exercise (the first three minutes of the video are the most helpful).

YouTube video

Remember, if you are exercising smarter correctly, it will not be fun, and you will be sore. Very sore. For days afterward. But it will be worth it. Science proves it. Think of it like an immunization. You trade safe and short-term discomfort now to avoid life-threatening and long-term discomfort later.

You will know you have arrived at the right resistance and intensity levels when you stop questioning how exercising for only ten to twenty minutes per week leads to lasting fat loss and start questioning how you will walk up stairs for the rest of the week given how sore you are 🙂

Long-term health and fitness success is not about exercising less. It’s about exercising less, smarter. It’s about trading quantity for quality and getting dramatically better results in dramatically less time though dramatically safer and more challenging exercise.

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Science Sound Bite: 6 Tips for Reading Nutrition Labels

When it comes to SANE eating, nutrition label reading isn’t critical. Non-starchy vegetables, seafood, lean meat, protein powders with no added sugar, low-fat or fat free plain Greek yogurt, low-fat or fat free cottage cheese, berries, citrus fruits, nuts, or seeds are SANE. Starches and sweets are inSANE. No nutrition label needed.

For everything else, here are six simple tips to keep in mind when reading nutrition labels.

  1. The more fiber the better.
  2. The more protein the better.
  3. The less sugar the better.
  4. The fewer ingredients the better.
  5. The more vitamins and minerals per serving relative to calories per serving the better.
  6. If the ingredients include added sweeteners that contains calories (list below), hydrogenated anything, or starch (flour, corn, rice, barley, etc.) try to avoid it.
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List of Sweeteners That Contain Calories

  1. Agave Nectar
  2. Barley Malt
  3. Beet Sugar
  4. Brown Sugar
  5. Buttered Syrup
  6. Cane Crystals
  7. Cane Juice Crystals
  8. Cane Sugar
  9. Caramel
  10. Carob Syrup
  11. Castor Sugar
  12. Confectioner’s Sugar
  13. Corn Sweetener
  14. Corn Syrup
  15. Corn Syrup Solids
  16. Crystalline Fructose
  17. Date Sugar
  18. Demerara Sugar
  19. Dextran                Dextrose
  20. Diastatic Malt
  21. Diatase
  22. Ethyl Maltol
  23. Evaporated Cane Juice
  24. Fructose
  25. Fruit Juice
  26. Fruit Juice Concentrates
  27. Galactose
  28. Glucose
  29. Glucose Solids
  30. Golden Sugar
  31. Golden Syrup
  32. Granulated Sugar
  33. Grape Sugar
  34. High-Fructose Corn Syrup
  35. Honey
  36. Icing Sugar
  37. Invert Sugar
  38. Lactose
  39. Malt Syrup
  40. Maltodextrin
  41. Maltose
  42. Maple Syrup
  43. Molasses
  44. Muscovado Sugar
  45. Panocha
  46. Raw Sugar
  47. Refiner’s Syrup
  48. Rice Syrup
  49. Sorbitol
  50. Sorghum Syrup
  51. Sucrose
  52. Sugar
  53. Syrup
  54. Treacle
  55. Turbinado Sugar
  56. Yellow Sugar
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