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20 Longevity Super foods!
(Plus a good smoothie recipe)

I admit it. I am a sucker for any article that has a "number that promises" in its title, as in "10 ways to shine up your wood floors without you actually doing anything, like employing mops, brooms or products of any kind!" Or,"7 ways to become enlightened without meditating!" or "8 incredibly easy steps to MAKING MONEY! in the current financial crises!" or "20 longevity superfoods!" I, like anyone else, am very keen on my life being uncomplicated and straightforward, not filled with the endless struggley kind of decisions about this and that but mostly that - which is this: What do I eat on a regular basis that is very healthy, honors my food sensitivities, won't break my bank and is easy to prepare?

A British scientist, a professor of "functional foods" at Leeds U, released his list of the top foods that he thinks can lead to longevity which I will talk about later. But first a bit about the whole longevity thing: In my last newsletter I talked about Dr. Nortin Hadler (Worried Sick) and how he feels that since you are never going to get out of this alive you should probably review your current goal of living forever, maybe downsizing it a bit into something more realistic. According to Dr. Hadler, our new goal should be a healthy 85. (I would like to take the 85 up to 90, if you don't mind.)

Trying hard for anything after Hadler's magical age of 85 - where I guess we look in the mirror and scream and fall over dead - is buying into the Methuselah Complex which is usually fraught with expensive and sometimes dangerous injectibles and surgeries to avoid aging and dying, or, at the very least, assumes the "If I look young then I won't die!" theory. I agree pretty much with Dr. Hadler and have always held to the idea that I want to "live long and die short., so, rather than trying to live to querulous 107, my newly revised goal is to live very heartily and very vitally until I keel over sometime after the ripe old age of 85 or 90. To really effort and struggle and become miserable and deny yourself just to live a really, really, really long time is not something I aspire to. The goal to me is to feel well while you're alive, not to live forever. I would rather just have a bit of fun nattering with friends, eating right, sleeping well and live a reasonable life span.

But I think death has everyone hornswaggled. "God, it's me talking. I will do anything but that. Can we make a deal here?" and then we make our personal deals with the devil starting with magical thinking about the inevitability of the "event" ("If I don't think about it, it won't ever, ever happen. La La La. ") Or, maybe some of us will try to look and act younger, buying all sorts of expensive treatments and fooling ourselves that this is what will turn back the clock. Maybe some of us will do all sorts of diagnostic medical testing to try and find the "Check Engine" light that's on, or some of us will over-exercise or take too many supplements. Most of us will do anything - just to stave off the mean guy with the scythe.

Abraham (the channel) says there is really no death anyway, and that "this death thing is so misunderstood that you use it to torture yourself never-endingly and just absolutely unnecessarily. There are those who feel such fulfillment of life and such connection to Source who understand that there is no separation between what is physical and non-physical, who understand that there is not even a lapse in consciousness and that "death" is a matter of closing one's eyes in this dimension and literally opening one's eyes in the other dimension. And that truly is how all death is, no matter how it looks up to that point. The reemergence into Source Energy is always a delightful thing."

Now for the 20 foods that you and I will carry around in our pocket when we go shopping.

1. apples
2. blackberries
3. black tea
4. blueberries
5. broccoli
6. cereal bran
7. cherries
8. cherry tomatoes
9. coffee
10. cranberries
11. dark chocolate
12. green tea
13. oranges
14. peaches
15. plums
16. raspberries
17. red grapes
18. red onions
19. spinach
20. strawberries

I would add three more: Salmon, yams and legumes. So, eat a bunch of these daily, live long - at least until 85 - and prosper. And live your life like the centenarian who said when asked how he got to be 101: "When it rains, I let it."

A Very Healthy Green Smoothie

Handful of parsley

One Granny Smith Apple

Half banana (cut them up and freeze them)

Handful cranberries

A few drops of stevia for sweetness if desired. (I use the stevia flavored with vanilla)

Scoop of protein powder (I use either Mediclear or Whey Cool or PaleoMeal)

As much filtered water and ice as you want. Then blend well. It will be a pretty green color, and full of good vitamins, minerals and phytonutrients.

I might also add some amino acid powder, Greens First or PaleoReds, natural vitamin C from acerola cherries, maybe some coconut oil or MCT oil and a powder called Metabolic Balancer. You can get all the powders and oils from me.

Good way to start your day or to drink mid-day to renew your energy.

Next time I will give you my favorite Chicken Patty recipe. I make a lot at one time, then freeze in patties, and take out of the freezer the morning I want them for dinner at night. Put on a sprouted grain bun with some organic mayo... yum.

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