http://ranprieur.com/#9a417fe513f58988c3b5b1e84cfc57397194a79b 2024-12-03T15:50:54Z Ran Prieur http://ranprieur.com/ ranprieur@gmail.com http://ranprieur.com/#fa1cac83c0455ce4dd8bb50eefc043b6a7bb2be4 2024-12-03T15:50:54Z December 3. Continuing on death, I do a lot of things to put it off, and these are my top eight health practices, starting with the least controversial.

1) Sugar bad, fiber good. These two go together because fiber mimimizes the toxicity of sugar. 2) Drink mostly water. I drink tap water with an under-sink carbon block filter to take out the chlorine. 3) Avoid highly processed foods. We don't know exactly how, but they're definitely connected to the obesity epidemic. If the ingredients list is longer than it is wide, it's probably bad for you.

4) Walk a lot. A little known reason this is good for you, is that your calf muscles pump lymph fluid, which balances and cleans your body. I think this has something to do with restless legs syndrome. I also wear shoes that allow me to walk on the balls of my feet. It's less efficient than heel-toe, but it's a better calf workout and I believe that it's better for my joints.

5) Somewhere I read that the best detox is a very deep outbreath. That's probably not true, but I tried it, squeezing hard to the bottom of my lungs, and it sure feels like a detox. At first I always cough, as my windpipe tastes the bad air at the bottom. After four or five purges, the breath goes smoothly. I try to do this once or twice a day, and since I started doing it, I have not developed any crud in my lungs, even during my last round of Covid.

6) I believe that grass fed butter is the healthiest fat, and I eat a lot of it. Coconut and avocado oil are probably also good, and olive oil is good if it's not fake. The worst fat is anything partially hydrogenated, especially cottonseed, which is full of free radicals. The second worst, I believe, is the industrial blend of sunflower-safflower-canola that is common in highly processed foods.

7) Get some sun. I believe the present sun phobia will go the way of fat phobia as the evidence accumulates. This is a good article with plenty of science, Is Sunscreen the New Margarine? It's still important to avoid burning, but in summer I use hats and sleeves rather than sunscreen, and in winter I do 5-10 minutes of sunbathing on every sunny day.

8) Every chance I get, I walk barefoot in dewy grass. I believe that it's good for my immune system, and it also provides electrical grounding.

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