I am offering my posts on Health Promotion. I have been utilizing the MyPlate.GOV information was launched back in 2011 or so to replace the Food Pyramid that didn't help me or my patients to successfully change their food habits and attempt to become healthier to enhance the effects of the prescribed treatment and improve the gap and if possible, reverse the gap between their Chronological and biological age. In addition, I found these reports to be very helpful to Teams, students, my patients and their families.
A. View all topics for USDA Food and Nutrition Service. This has several useful sites.
B. See more at: http://www.choosemyplate.gov/about#sthash.tkWEBnRW.dpuf. A great deal of useful information.
• HOME- CHOOSE MY PLATE.GOV.
• WHAT IS MYPLATE?
• FRUITS,•VEGETABLES,•GRAINS,•PROTEIN FOODS,•DAIRY• OILS
I generated these posts and in fact applied to my life with positive outcomes the key precepts of My Late.Gov and the information I acquired, curated shared with my team members, my patients and their families.
I. A.
1. ARCHealthPromotionResponsetoFoodandNutritionService
2. Health Promotion - Educational Materials (psychiatristsites.com) I have briefly described the information offered in these posts
3. HealthPromotionRecomendationsBellyFatandassociatedissues.
4. TreatmentRecommendationsforRestoringWellbeing
I. B.
1.Your Guide to Lowering Your Blood Pressure with DASH (nih.gov).
2.The Mediterranean diet and health: a comprehensive overview - PubMed (nih.gov)
3. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/06/5-foods-the-communities-with-high-rates-of-living-to-100-eat-often.html
4. https://www.theguardian.com/food/2024/apr/09/swapping-red-meat-for-herring-sardines-and-anchovies-could-save-75000-lives-study-suggests
5. https://edition.cnn.com/2024/04/09/health/aging-death-why-we-die-wellness/index.html
I. C.
What we eat on Ikaria, Greek island of longevity (cnbc.com)
Response to Ms. Kochilas.
Dear Mr. Kochilas,
Thank you ever so much for this excellent description of the diet favored for the ages by Ikarians that is documented in these spectacular facts. In 2009, Greek physicians and researchers found that 13% of Ikarians in their study were over 80, compared to about 1.5% of the global population and about 4% in North America and Europe. People on the island were 10 times more likely to live to 100 than Americans. The centenarian was so right when he told Dan Buettner that Ikaria is place where people forgot to die.
I have more on Mr. Buettner's excellent work that can make a big difference in lives of millions and in the process, help prevent Medicare and Medicaid from going broke.
It is very clear from my research and personal experience these fundamentally sound traditional dietary customs because these components and attendant lifestyle could create a healthier Microbiome, reduce the core inflammation and the result could be Healthy changes in DNA Methylation and Telomere length. I will provide the inks to my work at the end of this post.
Measuring Biological aging through DNA methylation involves analyzing changes in the patterns of DNA methylation at specific sites in the genome. The most commonly used method for this is called DNA methylation age estimation or epigenetic clock. It compares the methylation patterns of certain genes or regions with a reference dataset to estimate a person's biological age.
There are two Clocks based on DNA Methylation the Horvath clock and the Hannum clock are two well-known epigenetic clocks that use DNA methylation data to estimate age. These clocks are developed using statistical models that correlate DNA methylation patterns with chronological age. By comparing an individual's methylation patterns to the clock, it's possible to estimate their biological age, which may differ from their actual chronological age.
Keep in mind that while DNA methylation-based clocks provide valuable insights into biological aging, they are not definitive measures of aging and should be interpreted within the context of other physiological and lifestyle factors. Acceleration of the DNA methylation and shortening of the Telomeres will advance the biological age over the chronological age and presage shortening of the life span unless changes are instituted in the dietary practices and adoption of health promoting socialization and engagement with peers, family members and in the community which can reverse the DNA methylation and Telomere Shortening. One of the first steps in this road to health is to create and sustain a healthy Microbiome.
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/06/5-foods-the-communities-with-high-rates-of-living-to-100-eat-often.html
I am sharing this link to Dan Buettner's report: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/06/5-foods-the-communities-with-high-rates-of-living-to-100-eat-often.html.
People who live to 100 don’t eat like typical Americans: Here are ‘the 5 pillars of a longevity diet.’
There are some daily practices that may increase your chances of living to 90 and beyond – and a healthy diet is one of the most important factors on the list.
In his new book, “The Blue Zones American Kitchen: 100 Recipes to Live to 100,” Dan Buettner “identified the world’s longest-lived areas (blue zones) and studied the patterns and lifestyles that seem to explain their populations’ longevity.”
Mr. Buettner has identified the five pillars of longevity diet which helps people forget to die.
‘The five pillars of a longevity diet’
Buettner found that 65% of dietary intake in blue zones came from complex carbohydrates, and these foods are “the five pillars of a longevity diet on four continents”:
1. Whole grains like corn, rice and oats (complex carb)
2. Greens
3. Tubers, including potatoes and yams (complex carb)
4. Nuts
5. Beans (complex carb)
Blue zones are defined by Buettner as populations with the highest rates of living to 100 – or becoming centenarians – and the highest middle-age life expectancies.
Across the world, these groups include communities in Japan, Italy, Greece, Costa Rica and even a Seventh Day Adventist community in California.
“The people in the blue zones live up to a decade longer than average Americans and spend a fraction of what most [of] the rest of us do on health care,” Buettner wrote.
Of course, there are multiple factors to consider. Many of these communities have more opportunities to walk from place to place and tend to stress much less than most Americans.
But, after analyzing over 150 dietary surveys that capture “the daily eating habits of people in the blue zones over the past 80 years,” these were the most common foods included in their diets.
These are the posts I have shared for many years with my Teams, my patients and their family members.:
1. Health Promotion - Educational Materials (psychiatristsites.com) This link provides access to several illustration between Psycho-Neuro [including Vagal and Autonomic NS influences] Immuno-Endocrine- Microbiome systems and inflammatory cytokines etc. I introduced my teams and my patients to the SENSS Paradigm that I developed over the years. I have many data links and illustrations of the systems affecting our biological aging process in both directions.
2. TreatmentRecommendationsforRestoringWellbeing: Managing Depression in comprehensive manner including adopting the tenets of the SENSS paradigm described in previous post.
3. Your Guide to Lowering Your Blood Pressure with DASH (nih.gov).
4. The Mediterranean diet and health: a comprehensive overview - PubMed (nih.gov)
I welcome your responses.
Velandy Manohar, MD.
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A. SixTipstoenhanceImmunity
B. Increased White Blood Cell Count May Be Tied To Increased Depression Polygenic Scores (psychiatristsites.com)
C. Fighting Inflammation - Harvard Health
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A. Massachusetts General Hospital- Spiritual Care Spiritual resources for Hard Times (psychiatristsites.com)
B. Sources of Solace and Strength, Insight, and Inspiration
My website:velandymanoharmd.com has several related posts.
Velandy Manohar, MD.,
Distinguished Life Fellow of APA,
Medical Director- CT. Aware Recovery Care- first of the Operations in 10 states with more planned. 2016- Retired 2022
President- ARC- In-home Addiction treatment, PC., 2016 -Retired 2022
CT MEDICAL EXAMINING BOARD (LICENSING AUTHORITY): Member 1995-2007
CT MEB Member Hearing Panel since 2008
Helped formulate the Statement of the CMEB on the use fo Controlled Substances for the Treatment of Pain. 2005
BOARD CERTIFIED –ABPN-PSYCHOSOMATIC MEDICINE #240 2005-2015 2005-2015
BOARD ELIGIBLE-ABMS-PAIN MEDICINE 2004
CERTIFIED IN ADMINISTRATIVE PSYCHIATRY (APA): April1997
CERTIFIED BY ABPN: ADDED QUALIFICATION IN ADDICTION PSYCHIATRY –1993
RECERTIFIED IN ADDICTION PSYCHIATRY (#259) March 2003-2013
CERTIFIED BY ABPN: PSYCHIATRY #017946 June 1978
Founding member and past member of Steering Committee-Psychotherapy Caucus APA
Charter Member CT Multi-Cultural Health Partnership, Nancy Berger Member Award
2012
Founding Member- Community Resilience Collaborative of Mx County-CT- [Childhood Trauma focused]
American Health Council - Best in Medicine - 2018,
In Home Addiction Treatment Institute- Impact Award- 2019.