Eating For Health

This week my husband showed me an interesting article in TIME, Can Taurine Slow Aging?   Who isn’t interested in slowing down father time?   Then my husband asked me if I knew what taurine was.   I said, “sure, it is an amino acid in some proteins.”   So, what does taurine have to do with slowing aging?   What foods have taurine?   Are there ways to increase taurine levels in your body besides eating certain foods? .   What is taurine? As noted in my blog, How can you add some high-quality protein foods to your day? , proteins are made up of building blocks called amino acids.   Your body can make some amino acids but some you have to get from the foods you eat.   For babies taurine is an essential amino acid but adults can make the amino acid, taurine.      Taurine levels decline as you age. Although adults make taurine, the amount we make decreases substantially with age.   For example, in 60-year-old individual...

Eating out at a Fast-Food place?   What sandwiches are healthier options and which sandwiches should you skip?   WebMD has some good suggestions for you.   Why should you skip some sandwiches?   Calories for one.   Some sandwiches are loaded with calories and often loaded with fat.   Here are some sandwiches to avoid and some sandwiches to enjoy. Burger King What to skip?   Skip the Triple Whopper with Cheese .   Good to have the lettuce, tomato and onion but not so good to have the 3 beef patties.   This sandwich packs a whopping 1299 calories and that is before you add any sides like a sugared soda and some fries.   Why so many calories?   Because this sandwich is loaded wit 90 grams of fat.   Since fat has 9 calories a gram, that is 810 fat calories.   More fat than many people should have in an entire day. What to choose?   Instead of the Whopper, choose the Original Chicken Sandwich .   Yes, the ...