How to Take Care of Future You
What you eat today influences brain health and physical well-being for the rest of your life, if you live that long
No matter how old you are now, what you eat today could determine your health and well-being years and even decades from now, assuming you make it that far.
While this might sound obvious, it needed to be said. Good nutrition feeds the mind and body not just for daily surviving but for long-term thriving. Poor nutrition — the typical Western diet heavy in red meat, sugar and highly processed food that’s barely food — eats away at blood, bones, brain and other organs, day by day, down at the cellular level, in ways we can’t feel or see until, kaboom, we have cancer, or type 2 diabetes, or dementia, or or or … I could go on and on, right up to and including premature death.
But we know all that. So what else is new?
Well, three brand new studies are what’s new, each with preliminary but intriguing findings that offer much to chew on for anyone who wants to stay on this good Earth for a while and hopes to be capable and coherent to the end. While none of the studies offer cause-and-effect proof, they add perspective to the large body of work that makes clear the monumental importance of eating well.
