{"id":31261,"date":"2024-01-01T23:45:58","date_gmt":"2024-01-02T05:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wholehealthchicago.com\/blog\/?p=31261"},"modified":"2024-01-01T23:56:55","modified_gmt":"2024-01-02T05:56:55","slug":"some-easy-new-years-resolutions-for-longevity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wholehealthchicago.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/01\/some-easy-new-years-resolutions-for-longevity","title":{"rendered":"Some Easy New Year’s Resolutions for Longevity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Now that we\u2019ve entered another New Year, here are a few REALLY EASY resolutions that will boost your health and likely to prolong your life. If I\u2019m wrong, and you find yourself unexpectedly on the underside of the sod, call me for a full refund. No questions asked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Have one small square of dark chocolate each day (high in antioxidants)<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. <\/strong>Use more garlic in your cooking. (lowers blood pressure, cholesterol, high in antioxidants).<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Have a cup or two of green tea each day. (same as above, reduces cancer risks; available in capsule concentrates if you don\u2019t like the taste<\/a>).<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. <\/strong>Eat more organic fruits and vegetables. (avoiding all those herbicides\/pesticides will pay off in the long run).<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Walk briskly outside for 20 minutes every day or 20 minutes of High Intensity Interval Training. Find an online video that matches your age.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. Laugh more\u2014read more jokes, watch funny movies, invite your funniest friends over for dinner.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  7. Decide what the single most stressful aspect of your life is and make a project of doing something about it. (True story: When I was taking psychiatry in medical school, the professor held up \u2018the most useful book imaginable to reduce stress.\u2019 It was \u201cHow to Stop Worrying\u201d by self-help guru Dale Carnegie, written in 1948<\/a>,. The whole class laughed. Those that actually bothered to read the book, profited endlessly from its wisdom).<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  8. Start planning and saving for a vacation, even if it means putting a few coins in a jar every day.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  9. <\/strong>Eat breakfast. When a large group of 100-years-olds was questioned about their lifestyles, the factor common to them all was eating this most vital meal of the day.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  10. Vow to read labels and eat nothing containing high fructose corn syrup and all those chemicals with names you can\u2019t pronounce. This is the vast array of what convert various mush-like ingredients into ultra-processed \u201cfoods\u201d.<\/strong> Obesity, diabetes, clogged arteries, cancers in young people are just a few of the gifts from the food industry.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  11. Lastly, clean out your \u201cVitamin Graveyard\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    You probably never called it that but you\u2019ll find your personal graveyard on your kitchen countertop or along shelves in your medicine cabinet or stretched to the entire bathroom windowsill, the oldest bottles dropped unceremoniously into a cardboard box \u201cfor later use.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Many (in fact, probably most) of my patients have supplement accumulations like this. Perhaps yours began with the recommendation from a friend, a health food store clerk or a TV commercial (\u201cfirst month free, stop anytime\u201d). Maybe you responded to a persuasive mailing that promised relief from some worrisome symptom that you\u2019ve completely forgotten about. Or perhaps a late-night infomercial reassured you that some fearful disease could be prevented if only you had your credit card ready. So, you start taking whatever it was and then a few weeks later you add another, then another. And now you have one yourself: a vitamin graveyard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Time to clean house and get rid of your vitamin graveyard. Here\u2019s how:<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n