Yesterday we learned that eating more veggies can help you feel five years younger! Today a way to feel even younger!

For the first time scientists have found something that not only halts brain shrinkage but actually reverses it. According to a new study, the brain’s long, slow decline may not be inevitable. Regular aerobic activity apparently increases blood flow to the brain and triggers biochemical changes that increase production of new brain neurons. Professor Arthur Kramer of the University of Illinois says, “After only three months, the people who exercised had the brain volumes of people three years younger.” Studies have linked increased brain volume to improvements in thinking, remembering and the ability to ‘think outside the box.’
Source: Journal of Gerontology: Medical Sciences

There we have it – eat more veggies, feel five years younger! Get some aerobic activity and your brain age decreases three years. Now you can feel almost a decade younger in no time.

Here are some amazing stats I have recently learned – those of you with kids are going to be stunned (& horrified)!

• this generation of children being born is the FIRST generation of kids NOT expected to outlive their parents.  Can you believe this!?  Our diet & health as a nation (world?) has declined so much that our children aren’t expected to live as long as we will?
• The average American child eats:
  • 3/4 pounds of sugar a DAY
  • More than 2400 mg of sodium a DAY
  • Gets more than 30% of their daily caloric intake from TRANS and HYDROGENATED FATS.

These statistics make me ill. 

The solution is so simple and right in front of all of us.  More fruits and vegetables and less processed foods. Small changes in diet can make profound life changes.