Vit­a­min E

What can high-vitamin E foods do for you?

• Pro­tect your skin from ultra­vi­o­let light
• Pre­vent cell dam­age from free radicals
• Allow your cells to com­mu­ni­cate effectively
• Help pro­tect against prostate can­cer and Alzheimer’s disease

What events can indi­cate a need for more high-vitamin E foods?

• Diges­tive sys­tem prob­lems, espe­cially malabsorption
• Tin­gling or loss of sen­sa­tion in the arms, hands, legs, or feet
• Liver or gall­blad­der problems

Excel­lent sources of vit­a­min E include: mus­tard greens, chard, sun­flower seeds, and turnip greens. Very good sources include almonds and spinach.

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Happy Hal­loween! Pretty Painted Pumpkins

Happy Hal­loween! My friends at my Santa Bar­bara Bragg Farm have  painted pretty pump­kins and placed them around my gar­dens! Enjoy!

Bless­ings of Peace, Love and Health to you!

Pretty Painted Pump­kin at the Bragg Farm in Santa Barbara

more painted pump­kins at the Santa Bar­bara Bragg Farm

more painted pump­kins at the Santa Bar­bara Bragg Farm

Happy Hal­loween!

PUMPKIN FILLED RAVIOLI

½ cup + 2 Tbsps tofu (extra firm), drain 3 Tbsps prune purée*

1 cup pump­kin, canned or fresh cooked 1 Tbsp raw honey

Tomato-Basil Pasta (recipe below) ¼ tsp nutmeg

1 tsp Bragg Sprin­kle (24 herbs & spices) 1 Tbsp Bragg Olive Oil

Pre­pare one Tomato-Basil Pasta recipe (see below). Place tofu in food proces­sor; add pump­kin and blend. Add remain­ing ingre­di­ents and process until smooth. Roll out 2 large sheets of Tomato-Basil Pasta. Place tea­spoon­fuls of fill­ing at reg­u­lar inter­vals on the first layer of dough. Cover with sec­ond layer of dough. Using thumbs gen­tly press down space between mounds of fill­ing. Dip rim of a 3-inch-diameter glass into flour. Use the glass to cut cir­cles around each ravi­oli. Press the edges of each cir­cle with fork to seal. Ravi­oli may be made a day before cook­ing. Drop into boil­ing water, to which 1 table­spoon olive oil has been added. Boil 10 min­utes, stir­ring occa­sion­ally. Top with tomato sauce. Serves 6.

TOMATO — BASIL PASTA

½ cup tofu (extra firm), drain 1½ tsps dried basil

1 Tbsp Bragg Organic Olive Oil 25 oz jar tomato sauce

1 cup semolina flour 6 Tbsps tomato paste

½ cup whole-grain flour ½ tsp gar­lic, finely mince

¼ tsp Bragg Liq­uid Aminos ½ tsp Bragg Sprin­kle
In food proces­sor, mix tofu and tomato paste. Add flours, gar­lic, basil, Sprin­kle and Liq­uid Aminos. Add olive oil and blend until dough sticks together. Turn dough onto board sprin­kled with semolina flour. Knead until smooth, about 3 min­utes. Place dough in plas­tic bag and set aside for 1 hour. Divide the dough into 4 equal por­tions. If not using for hand made ravi­o­lis, place one por­tion on lightly floured board and return remain­ing por­tions to plas­tic bag for future pas­tas. Flat­ten dough into oval shape and roll dough into an oblong sheet, about 7x16”. Dough should be thin, but not too translu­cent. Divide sheets cross­wise and set aside to dry on wax paper in a warm place for about 30 min­utes, or until it is dry and pli­able, but not brit­tle. For filled pasta, roll dough on floured board to about 8 inch thick. Sprin­kle dough lightly with flour and roll up loosely. Use a sharp knife to cut type of pasta desired. Remem­ber that pasta will swell about dou­ble when cooked, so make cuts about half the diam­e­ter desired. Allow the cut pasta to dry by toss­ing into a loose pile of flour lay­ing flat on wax paper in the open air for at least an hour. This will pre­vent the pasta from stick­ing after it has been cut and keep it firm after cook­ing. To pre­pare pasta, cook in boil­ing water for 8–10 min­utes. Serves 4–6.

Fit 50-Year-Olds As Fit As 20-Year-Olds Who Don’t Exercise

It may not be pos­si­ble to have the body of a 20-year-old at 50, but it is pos­si­ble for fit 50-year-olds to be as fit as 20-year-olds who don’t exer­cise, accord­ing to researchers at the K.G. Jeb­sen Cen­ter of Exer­cise in Med­i­cine at the Nor­we­gian Uni­ver­sity of Sci­ence and Tech­nol­ogy in Trondheim.

Ulrik Wisloff, a pro­fes­sor and direc­tor of the K.G. Jeb­sen Cen­ter, says that activ­ity is far more impor­tant than age in deter­min­ing fitness.

Stian Thore­sen Aspenes was recently awarded his PhD by the uni­ver­sity for research con­ducted at the K.G. Jeb­sen Cen­ter. His the­sis exam­ined links between peak oxy­gen uptake, phys­i­cal activ­ity and car­dio­vas­cu­lar risk fac­tors among healthy adults aged from 20 to 90. He says:

“Phys­i­cal con­di­tion is the most impor­tant fac­tor in describ­ing an individual’s over­all health, almost like a report card.” Stian Thore­sen Aspenes

Fit 50-year-olds can be as fit as 20-year-olds who don’t do much exer­cise. Fur­ther­more, it shows that exer­cise, espe­cially the amount and inten­sity, is the key.

One man who might serve as liv­ing proof of these find­ings, is 100-year-old Fauja Singh who stunned the world this week by com­plet­ing a marathon in Canada. He fin­ished the 26.2 mile Toronto water­front marathon on Sun­day evening in 8 hours, 11 min­utes and 5.9 sec­onds, secur­ing his place in the Gui­ness book of World Records as the old­est per­son,& the first cen­te­nar­ian, to ever com­plete a run of that distance.

The run on Sun­day was Singh’s eighth marathon. He says his secret is that he eats a light diet com­pris­ing mostly tea, toast and curry, and he main­tains a pos­i­tive out­look.

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Patri­cia Bragg Fea­tured on LifeTalk Radio Network

Patri­cia Bragg Fea­tured on LifeTalk Radio Net­work, Fri­day, Oct. 28 (5:00 pm EST, 2:00 pm PST) , Sun­day, Oct. 30 (3:00 pm EST, 12:00 pm (noon) PST) on Health & Longevity

Dr. Patri­cia Bragg will be the fea­tured guest on the new national radio show, Health & Longevity this Fri­day and Sun­day.  This new national weekly radio show is hosted by Dr. John Wes­t­er­dahl,  Bragg Direc­tor of Health Science.

Pro­gram is also is also archived for later lis­ten­ing

Invite your friends to listen

Health & Longevity
Host: Dr. John Wes­t­er­dahl, PhD, MPH, RD, CNS

Pro­gram Descrip­tion: This pro­gram is ded­i­cated to pro­vid­ing you with the lat­est cut­ting edge infor­ma­tion about Nutri­tion, Health, and Lifestyle Med­i­cine so you can live a vibrant, healthy and long life!  Fea­tures Health & Longevity News and Research, Answers your ques­tions about nutri­tion and health, Fea­tures spe­cial inter­views with lead­ing health author­i­ties and personalities.

Airs Fri­day, Oct. 28 5:00 PM East­ern and Sun­day, Oct. 30– 3:00 PM Eastern

Fea­tured Guest:  Dr. Patri­cia Bragg Nutri­tion­ist to the Hol­ly­wood Stars and President/CEO Bragg Live Food Prod­ucts. Learn about the Bragg Healthy Lifestyle for Health and Longevity.  Dr. Bragg tells about her health work with Hol­ly­wood Stars and lead­ers in the busi­ness world.

LISTEN LIVE  FRIDAY OR SUNDAY
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Here’s a direct link to the archived Pod­cast page for Health & Longevity:

Pod­cast

Dr. Patri­cia Bragg fea­tured on LifeTalk Radio

Anti-Ageing Nutri­tion Secrets for Health, Beauty, and Longevity

Tues­day evening (Octo­ber, 25, 2011)  in Santa Bar­bara, CA at the Faulkner Gallery, located within the Santa Bar­bara Pub­lic Library, Dr. John Wes­t­er­dahl, PhD, MPH, RD, CNS, Direc­tor, Bragg Health Insti­tute  gave a lec­ture on Anti-Ageing Nutri­tion Secrets for Health, Beauty, and Longevity. The lec­ture was quite a suc­cess with excel­lent turn out! For those of you who missed the lec­ture may now view the video via the link below.