Healthy nuggets of news to keep your motor humming

Welcome to the 14th issue of our newsletter:

Healthy World Digest

In this issue:

* Exercise to enhance thinking

* Coffee for asthma

* Better alternative to fish oil supplements

* Interval exercise rules

* Best recovery drink

* Healthy, "meaty" salads

Oh, and we wont harass you with numerous mailings or with articles that are longer than the Bible.

Just a few important, interesting, up to date, super beneficial health items that you could easily apply to you life or pass along to loved ones.

Following are some simple nuggets to keep you swimming along.

* Exercise to enhance thinking

Researchers at the University of Virginia found brain functioning - reasoning, speed, memory - to start to drop at as early as 27 years old.

Their recommendations? Be sure to work out with vigor. Such physical exertion helps to heighten brain power.

Our site, Healthy Exercise World has explored the nexus between the mind and exercise fairly extensively. Click for our umbrella page on brain exercises

* Coffee for asthma

Yet another herbal benefit attributed to coffee. You remember java? That drink that research supposedly found to result in to all kinds of health ailments only a few short years ago. Oh, how the tide has turned.

Indiana University researchers found that gulping a few cups of ol' Joe before exercising, reduces exercise-induced asthma attack as well as a prescription inhaler.

But don't go for decaf. It's the caffeine in coffee that provides the benefit.

* Better option to fish oil supplements

Natural krill oil supplements are demonstrating superior benefits to regular fish oil supplements.

Two discrete advantages to NKO supplements -> About 1/7 of dose of NKO has same to better health benefits as full dose of standard fish oils supplements and NKO has no after taste or that fish burp we all love.

* Interval exercise rules

More on the effects of exercise...

Another piece of research on interval exercise shows it is far superior to traditional cardio workouts. McMaster University, in Canada found that 4 - 7, thirty second bursts, followed by four minutes recuperation improved endurance better than the usual cardio sessions.

Healthy Exercise World has enthusiastically extolled the benefits of interval exercise. Visit our page in Healthy Exercise World for more on interval training

* Best recovery drink

If you work out pretty hard and wonder how to improve recovery, here's a good strategy.

Right after an exercise session have an easy to absorb drink with carbs, antioxidants, vitamins and protein. Yep, don't neglect the protein. That's the key.

I usually mix a scoop of protein powder, with some fresh fruit and some low sugar ice cream, in about twelve ounces of cold water.

My favorite is a scoop of banana flavored protein powder, a banana, a scoop of sugarless vanilla ice cream in twelve ounces of water.

Another fave is a scoop of strawberry flavored protein powder, about 1/2 dozen strawberries, low sugar strawberry ice cream in a little less than twelve ounces of cold water. (Remember that strawberries provide a lot of water and don't provide the creaminess that a banana does, so you don't need as much water here.)

Oh, and remember to mix protein powder into water first, then add other ingredients to blend in or powder may not dissolve properly.

Anyway, immediately after drinking my delicious shake, my mild brain fog from a good work out session clears up and I often feel like exercising some more. Try some combination that appeals to you.

* Healthy, 'meaty' salads

This is your lucky month. I remembered to include a recipe, sort of.

If you like munching on shrubbery, well good for you. There's no denying that salads are healthy unless you choose to do something to them to subtract their health quotient.

But, I have to admit that they just don't appeal to me as much as a good casserole, or hot sandwich with plenty of marinara sauce. As for a side dish, to me a cold salad just messes up a juicy brisket, steaming lasagna or chicken curry.

Well here are some suggestions that might help those of you who feel similarly but still feel you should get a daily salad into your diet.

To your cucumber, celery, pepper, lettuce, tomato and onion ensemble, you can just add some meat, like chicken maybe some cubed cheese.

But my traditional Sicilian family liked adding artichoke hearts (quartered, marinated) and olives, especially sauteed black ones. Green olives are good too.

Artichoke hearts and olives are low carb, healthy, perfect as an addition to a good salad. But they contrast with the crunchy or mealy, high water content of the other ingredients giving the salad a level of satisfaction that's not there without them.

After munching on this, I don't usually straightaway crave bread, pasta or potatoes.

Well, that's all she wrote for now. Really, all I wrote for now but look for next months' special summer issue of Healthy World Digest.

See you next month!

Sal

Healthy Water