Hollywood is full of celebrity diets, fitness routines, and odd workouts. It seems to come with the territory since many of them need to have a particular physique for a movie role or stay in shape to keep up with their music career demands. Either way, weve seen our share of wacky ideas that seem to work for them, regardless.

Most recently, however, is Jason Derulos salmon smoothies. He says hell do just about anything to stay fit, so his diet aint about taste. Would you go this far to be fit, too?

Derulo was first introduced to fans with his debut album Watcha Say in 2009, making additional hits like Talk Dirty, Ridin Solo, Marry me, and The Other Side in the following years. He quickly became admired for his talent for singing, songwriting, and dancing. That wouldnt be all for the Wiggle singer, though.

According to Influencer Marketing Hub, his career started as early as high school when he wrote Birdmans single Bossy, and many more for other musicians after. They also report that he has sold more than 30 million singles and 11 platinum singles. [And] as of July 2020, has more than 56 million combined followers on all his social media platforms. One social media platform, in particular, has more than 40 million of his fan base tuning in.

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More recently, Derulo has shifted into a sensation on Tik Tok, becoming one of the most followed celebrities on the app. In fact, in five months of sharing videos on the platform, he went from under 10 million followers to over 30 million.

Following such incredible success, he began making a #millimeal for every one million followers to his account and doing cooking Tik Toks. He even dropped $112,742 on dinnerin celebration of Savage Love and his TikTok success.

Having a physique like Derulos doesnt come without its sacrifices. He has always been straightforward when telling fans, it takes hard work and dedication. More shocking is how creative he can get in his workouts, using just about anything around him to keep his muscles in tip-top shape. This news can serve as a reminder to fans everywhere that you dont need a gym in your basement to get fit.

Derulo opens up with Mens Health on the importance of being resourceful with his workouts to get and maintain his physique. You have to be really creative and not be afraid to look foolish. Ive done anything from lifting my suitcase as dumbbells to just doing [a] crazy amount of pushups, Derulo said. I try to fool my body and always try to do something different because obviously, your body gets used to the same routine over and over again.

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Among Derulos list of crazy diets is a salmon smoothie that makes you queasy just at the thought of it. Its not all the R&B singer has experimented with to fuel all of his crazy workout sessions, though. According to GQ, the Tik Tok influencer has done everything under the sun to maintain a healthy and attractive body.

I used to blend my salmon and have a salmon shake, Derulo said. I did all kinds of crazy shit. Sometimes I would literally just eat a bunch of eggs. Eggs and veggies. I went vegan, vegetarian, pescatarian. What works the best for me is when I intermittent fast and just do a high protein diet.

Theres certainly no doubting the commitment and dedication that goes into getting as fit as Jason Derulo. His routines and diets are unusual, but they clearly have good results. It would be extremely difficult to even think about switching out a traditional smoothie for a salmon smoothie, though.

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Comedian Jeremy Levick and Rajat Suresh with their beverages of choice, black coffee and beer. Illustration: Eliana Rodgers

Jeremy Levick and Rajat Suresh produce absurd comedy videos that capture the ridiculousness of life right now. Our friends at Vulture described the comedic duo as masters at satirizing the super-specific internet stories, calling them comedians you need to know. We like for it to feel like youre coming across something real but it just feels insane, says Levick. What you dont know about the comedy duo is that they also take food very seriously. We support each other, but sometimes I can tell Rajat doesnt know a food, and Ive got to jump in, Levick explains. Suresh counters, It pisses me off sometimes when Jeremy doesnt know a food.

Tuesday, January 19Rajat Suresh: Sausage egg and cheese from Sunrise/Sunset plus a coffee. They put it on a bun. I dont usually have sausage, egg, and cheeses on buns, so thats kind of nice. A lot of people are asking me about this. I go there every now and then, its a little far.

You know, the Trump administration was so crazy and so unprecedented. I mean, the way he was just so rude. I needed something to center myself at the beginning of the day, and get ready for the return to normalcy, the return to unity. You can say that a sausage, egg, and cheese is kind of the most united sandwich you could get. Because it unites the sausage and the egg and the cheese together, like the Republicans and the Democrats. Thats what I was going for. I prefer not to eat bacon, I think. That also falls under unity.

Jeremy Levick: Morning coffee, black. Late breakfast 3 p.m. of egg whites with roasted tomatoes, toast with peanut butter, and cantaloupe and honeydew. This would be the last balanced meal I will have this week, and I was so proud of myself.

I do like that I can have breakfast whenever. My rules. I dont live with mommy anymore, so I can set all of my own rules. Same with Rajat.

RS: I can basically do whatever I want. But I would also like to add that its very authoritarian of Jeremy to just decide whenever breakfast is.

JL: Its so ironic that Ive now become mommy. Ive become the tyrannical mommy that Ive escaped, and now I set all these rules for myself. Youll find out from my food log that I have a very loose eating schedule. Thats a decision, and its not just that Im out of control with my life.

RS: Chicken biscuits and cheese bread from Sol Sips, plus beers. You dont want to be a lightweight. I care about that a lot. Im always telling Jeremy youve gotta get your drinking up, because when you go to the frat after that theyre just going to make fun of you.

I would probably say Im a 5 on the vegan scale. I was raised a vegetarian, and then my parents taught me to eat meat because it would be easier, so I feel like I have a good mix. I do like the fake meats a lot. Fake meats are good.

JL: I had a late dinner. A Field Burger, which is a vegan burger made out of mushrooms and lentils or something, and a few vegetables. Broccoli and some other stuff. Ive tried many of the veggie burgers and most of them are bad. Ive been recently trying to find patties that are soy-free so that MAGA people dont call me a soy boy.

I basically do not want to even go into this, but I had a late-night snacking session and its a bunch of insane foods that should not be eaten together. Id call it embarrassing, but my normal meals are just as embarrassing, if not more so. Im usually hunched over my kitchen counter having a bowl of a broccoli that I just put in the microwave and half of it is still frozen, and my roommate will frequently shake his head at me. I tried to tell him that he was being classist against me, but he pointed out its not a problem of affording nicer foods; its that I am stupid.

Wednesday, January 20RS: Banana and coffee. I think Andrew Yang called it the breakfast of champions in that video. I mean, who isnt inspired by that guy? Just picking up a whole bushel of bananas, I was like, I have to do it for our new mayor hopefully.

JL: I had my morning coffee (with turmeric) and a frozen Amys breakfast burrito. The burrito was no longer frozen by the time I ate it.

RS: I would like to add, sometimes Ive seen Jeremy take the burrito right out of the freezer, and then it just sucks on it until it is thawed.

JL: Its so exhausting to do that. I need to take a break before I can move my mouth again. So I have to prepare, basically. When am I gonna be hungry? And if I know Im going to be hungry later, I take it out and suck it and then eat it six hours later.

RS: Jeremys mouth is really hot. So it usually warms it up pretty well.

For a late lunch, I had one slice of pizza. I was walking around listening to a podcast and then I got a little hungry. But it was a little bit before dinner, so I got a slice, and chomped it down outside while everyone laughed at me on the street and then I kind of just walked home.

The podcast is called Pizza Time, and they said now is the time you go eat a slice and its silent for 30 minutes. Were big Pizza Time guys.

JL: Yeah, The New Republic puts it out, its really interesting. Anyway. I had an apple with peanut butter for lunch.

RS: I got a quesadilla and chips from Taqueria Santa Fe. Inauguration mode. Also, more beers.

JL: Rajats food pyramid looks really insane, and its not even a pyramid. I dont know.

RS: Yeah, its a new shape. The closest thing is a square, but its not a square. A lot of people see it and call it Rajats Square but its not. Thats not it.

JL: Late dinner. Edamame, sweet-and-sour vegan chicken, and a slice of carrot cake from Zen.First, people would call avocado a superfood, then kale became a superfood, and this year its vegan carrot cake. The frosting is in the shape of a carrot.

RS: While were talking about the food pyramid, the little picture of the carrot, how do we know thats not frosting?

JL: If you look at a food pyramid you see greens and vegetables and all this stuff. You dont realize that its all frosting in the shape of food.

I went crazy on this round of late-night snacking. Way worse than the previous night. A whole bowl of cereal, peanut-butter sandwich, a bunch of vegan deli meats, banana, more. It was humiliating this time, too, because I knew I had to log it. Felt like I was doing it in front of all the readers.

Thursday, January 21JL: Morning coffee, black. If you noticed I never put milk in my coffee, you have a keen eye. Its because, whereas a lot of new mothers produce milk, mine produced black coffee.

RS: Oatmeal and coffee. I famously like to eat just a bland thing in the morning. You can see the following I have on Twitter. I think thats mainly from eating bland foods in the morning. Most of my followers follow me to see if Im going to talk about bland food. I used to get the Trader Joes Os that are $2 and taste like nothing. They taste like cardboard. This oatmeal had a lot of seeds in it.

JL: Rajat gets the black watermelon seeds in his oatmeal, the ones that youre not supposed to eat.

RS: In my oatmeal, I once had an entire apricot or peach pit, and I just swallowed it.

JL: Yeah, like a pill. Sometimes I hide the apricot pit in peanut butter and spoon feed it to Rajat. Rajat and I are convinced youre supposed to eat the pit. We dont trust what everyone says.

RS: We think the pit gets a bad wrap in the news. From the mainstream media. So we eat the pit.

JL: No one would think to eat the pit, so how would you know its not good for you?

RS: For lunch, I had fake-meat chicken tenders and waffle fries from Hartbreakers. I think waffle is the best shape for fries. Thats what Ive always said. Im very militant about it. I get very mad if someone brings up a curly or a shoestring. If youre around me, you dont bring up that kind of divisive talk. Its just uncivil.

I also ate some frozen M&Ms. Why do I eat them this way? Uh, they taste better. Thats an easy one. My girlfriend does this and I stole the idea from her. I just want to give credit where credits due.

JL: Everyone, I just want to say, do your due diligence and look up whether Rajats girlfriend is real.

RS: For sure, do it. She has a website, and you can check it out. Its http://www.rajatsuresh.com/girlfriend. Go for it, check it out, and make your own decision.

JL: First meal of the day at 7 p.m. (???). I was busy doing really nice things (charitable donations and running a 5K to support one of the nicest charities in the world) so its not weird how late my first meal was. I had General Tsos tofu and vegetable rolls from Good Taste. This is the Chinese takeout a block away from me in Crown Heights, I go here all the time and this is my usual order. I love it. There was a shot of Good Tastes awning in How to With John Wilson and I was eating Good Taste as I watched the episode. It was awesome. It was takeout Inception. It actually kind of messed me up. I was sort of in a weird paralysis, I didnt speak for three days after that.

RS: You had wires connected to you, if I remember correctly, like in Inception.

JL: In that sense, it really was an Inception situation because it literally was Inception. I had the wires set up and I was going into Rajats dreams. I got stuck there for like ten years but only three seconds passed.

RS: Chips and salsa. Snacktime at around midnight Ive heard this is actually really healthy. Everything Ive discussed so far is a strict diet that I am following. It might seem like, Oh, hes having a banana now, and that seems random. But no, its very strict, and its based off of my food shape. Im a big dietician and I try to keep myself healthy and Ive been doing intermittent fasting as you can tell.

JL: Thats what Rajat calls running as fast as he can while eating. Rajat will say, Ive gotta go fast over to that piece of food.

RS: I mean, what else could that mean? I get so excited when I see something healthy, I start doing it.

Friday, January 22RJ: Everything bagel with jalapeo cream cheese from Knickerbocker Bagel. Also a coffee. I threw a bagel in the mix here so people know Im a New Yorker.

JL: Thats code for Jewish.

RS: I hope this is clear that Im the Jewish one, and Jeremy is the Indian one.

JL: I got an egg-and-cheese on a sesame bagel from a bodega. (Also had a banana and some orange juice.) We both had bagels because we had a bagel competition. The competition is who can eat a bagel. We both won!

RS: Also, Jeremy used to live in Bushwick and we would go to Knickerbocker together.

JL: Fond memories. I do miss that experience. I havent seen Rajat since then.

RS: Later, I got half a chicken burrito and half a tofu torta, plus chips and guac, from Ojal Mexican. Ive never gone to this place before. But they have the tofu torta, which is just something I had to try. Again, its unifying the torta and the burrito. I was also eating with my girlfriend, who you can see at http://www.rajetsuresh.com/girlfriend again. Everyone should check out that site if they think Im lying. We got both and split it.

JL: Field Burger again.I dont drink much anymore, but I drank a ton of whiskey in my friends backyard (to show off for Rajat). I took it too far in that it hurt my body on Saturday, but I texted Rajat and said, Guess how much I drank?

RS: Again, its about not being a lightweight at the end of the day.

Saturday, January 23RS: Turkey-and-seitan sandwich from a cafe called Chez Alex in Bed-Stuy. I like a good turkey sandwich. This is the first time Ive had turkey and seitan. It had some chipotle mayo on it, which was also good.

It was also more unity, between the meats and non-meats. Youve gotta listen to the other side. So that both sides can come together and experience love, because thats where it is, in the center, and its just so beautiful I think.

JL: My friend Sarah made us avocado toast. I know this is the hipster millennial food but its good. Recently, I got into being a hipster. I just learned about it a few nights ago. Someone sent me an Urban Dictionary link to hipsters, and I cant stop talking about it. Apparently everyone knew what this was ten years ago and are done talking about it.

RS: Im getting back into it now that Jeremy is learning about it. Its so cool to go through the Whole Foods thing again.

My girlfriend made me chicken, broccoli, and tortellini. I like a pasta every now and then. I usually dont go for tortellini, and this was special. Again, just check out her website. She made pasta and broccoli and chicken for me, because shes a good girlfriend and real. As you can read on my website, and I just want to say to the Deadspin guys, given the Manti Teo story they broke, if they can stay away from this, thatd be great.

Also ate a grocery store Oreo cake. Its a classic grocery store item.

JL: Rajat tries to dunk the whole Oreo cake in milk.

RS: Thats how youre supposed to eat it. I pick it up with one hand, and just kind of let it soak. I ate a very good amount of it. But I was with my girlfriend, and I was eating it with her.

JL: I went crawling back to Good Taste for lo mein and some broccoli. This is my second home, and they dont mind. Itll seem like theyre trying to kick me out, but that is not whats happening. It is also my personal living room. They dont call it that, necessarily, but I did set up a couch in there. Its a small space so it takes up most of the room. I invite people over and its fun.

RS: Its good there are the COVID restrictions, because you can just sit on your couch.

JL: Yeah, and when customers try to enter I go, Six feet, buddy. I think the owners like that.

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It can be hard to try to make a dietary change in your life. Aiming to live healthier is a noble goal but one that can be hard to do if youre not a physical fitness professional. Its easy to say youre going to shift into a High Protein Diet. But its another thing to actually do it and do it right.

That is why people need help. And there is a lot of help out there. Apps and trainers and the like, all aiming to get you on the right track. But very few of them are as easy to use and as effective as the fitness app Noom. So effective that youll make the switch to a High Protein Diet like a pro.

Why would you want to make a shift to a High Protein Diet? Simply put, protein is an essential nutrient your body needs to function properly. And studies have shown that eating more that is required can lead to weight loss as well as the other benefits protein provides, like healthier muscles and a strong system.

All of this sounds easy. But like any change to the system, its not. Thats why you should head on over to Noom. When you do, you will see that you need to take a little quiz. A quiz that is pretty in-depth. That way the app can figure out you and your wants. When all the results are tabulated, a routine is made for you.

The routines that Noom creates for you is two-fold. Based on you and what your goals are, it will give you a workout program and a dietary program to reach those goals. Knowing you want to go for a High Protein Diet will allow Noom to aim in that direction in a way that is healthy and effective for you.

But Noom also knows that there are things it cant account for. Elements that will make it harder for you to do those routines. So you can reach out within the app to the wellness professionals that are available to you. Professionals that can offer highly personal adjustments for you so you can hit your goals.

Thats not all the help you get from real live people at Noom. Because Noom also has a very large and active user base. A base that is growing every day. And you can reach out to them, and them to you, when you need it. Theres nothing like having people there to lift you up when you need a hand.

With wellness professionals and an active community at Noom, youll have no problems that cant be solved. Because even if you dont need to talk to a real live person, they leave help for you to access at all times. Workout routines and recipes are added all the time and stored on the app. So you can broaden your workouts and diet when you feel like it.

Being that it is an app, Noom is also a great help at keeping track of your progress. How many reps you do during a workout and at what weight. What you eat during the day and its nutritional value. So you and others can see how youre doing and what needs to be changed.

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By Llewellyn KingSpecial to The Enterprise

In politics, any idea can be pressed into service if it fits a purpose. The one I have in mind has been snatched from its Republican originators and is now at work on the left wing of the Democratic Party.

The idea is starve the beast. It came from one of President Ronald Reagans staffers and was used to curb federal spending.

It was a central idea in the Republican Party through the Reagan years and was taken up with vigor by tax-cutting zealots. It was on the lips of those who thought the way to small government was through tax cuts, i.e., financial starvation.

Now starve the beast is back in a new guise: a way to cut dependence on oil and natural gas.

This is the thought behind President Joe Bidens decision to revoke the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline, bringing oil to the United States from Canada, even after the expenditure of billions of dollars and an infinity of studies.

It is the idea behind banning fracking and restricting leases on federal lands. Some Democrats and environmental activists believe that this blunt instrument will do the job.

But blunt instruments are unsuited to fine work.

It also is counterproductive to set out to force that which is happening in an orderly way. The Biden administration shows signs of wanting to do this, unnecessarily.

Lumping coal, oil, and gas as the same thing under the title fossil fuel is the first error. In descending order, coal is the most important source of pollution, and its use is falling fast. Oil continues to be the primary transportation fuel for the world. World oil production and use hovers around 100 million barrels a day and that has been fairly steady in recent years.

In the United States, the switch to electric vehicles is well underway and in, say, 20 years, they will be dominant. Likewise, in Europe, Japan, and China. That train has left the station and is picking up steam.

Government action, like building charging stations, wont speed it up but rather will slow it down. The market is working. Willing buyers and sellers are on hand.

Every electric vehicle is a reduction in oil demand. But the world is still a huge market for petroleum and will be for a long time. What sense is there in hobbling U.S. oil exports? There are suppliers from Saudi Arabia to Nigeria keen to take up any slack.

Natural gas is different. It is a superior fuel in that it has about half the pollutants of coal and fewer than oil. It is great for heating homes, cooking, making fertilizers and other petrochemicals. Starving the production just increases the cost to consumers.

The real target is, of course, electric utilities. They rushed to gas to get off coal. It was cheaper, cleaner, and more manageable. Also, gas could be burned in turbines that are easily installed and repaired. Boilers not needed; no steam required.

But there are greenhouse gases emitted and, worse, methane leaks at fracking sites and from faulty pipelines throughout the system. These represent a grave problem. Here the government can move in with tighter regulation. If it is fixable, fix it. But methane leaks are no reason to cripple domestic production.

The question for the beast-starvers comes from Clinton Vince, who chairs the U.S. energy practice and co-chairs the global energy practice of Dentons, the worlds largest law firm. He asks, Is it better to sell natural gas to India and China or to let them build more coal-fired plants? Particularly if carbon-capture and sequestration technology can be improved.

If we are to continue to reduce carbon emissions in the United States, we need to take a holistic view of energy production and consumption. Does it make sense to allow carbon-free nuclear plants to go out of service because of how we value electricity in the short term? A market adjustment, well within government purview, could save a lot of air pollution immediately.

The hydrocarbon beast doesnt need to be starved, but a diet might be a good idea.

LlewellynKing is executive producer and host of White House Chronicle on PBS. His email is[emailprotected].He wrote this for InsideSources.com.

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THURSDAY, Jan. 28, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Adherence to plant-based diets is associated with a lower risk for type 2 diabetes, according to a study published online Jan. 13 in Diabetes Care.

Zhangling Chen, from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston, and colleagues used data from the Nurses' Health Study (NHS [1986 to 2012]; 76,530 women) and NHS II (1991 to 2017; 81,569 women) as well as the Health Professionals Follow-up Study (1986 to 2016; 34,468 men) to evaluate the association between plant-based diets and the subsequent risk for type 2 diabetes.

The researchers found 12,627 cases of type 2 diabetes during 2,955,350 person-years of follow-up. Participants with the largest decrease (>10 percent) in the plant-based diet index (PDI) and healthful PDI (hPDI) over four years had a higher diabetes risk in the subsequent four years (PDI: pooled hazard ratio [HR], 1.12; hPDI: HR, 1.23) compared with participants with stable PDI or hPDI, when adjusting for initial body mass index and initial and four-year changes in alcohol intake, smoking, physical activity, and other factors. The risk for diabetes was lower for each 10 percent increment in the PDI and hPDI over four years (PDI: HR, 0.93; hPDI: HR, 0.91). There was no association noted between changes in unhealthful PDI and diabetes risk. Between 6 and 35.6 percent of the associations between changes in the PDI and hPDI and diabetes risk was accounted for by weight changes.

"The findings of the current study not only confirm previous reports but also demonstrate that both four-year and longer-term (eight-year) improvements in adherence to overall and healthful plant-based diets are associated with lower diabetes risk," the authors write.

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Porsha Williams indulges in the occasional fried-chicken sandwich, and she's a regular customer at Dennis McKinley's Original Hot Dog Factory. (Shehas to beloyal to her daughter PJ's father, after all.) But,on a day-to-day basis,The Real Housewives of Atlanta cast member keeps her diet as clean as possible.

The self-described "baby vegan" eats plenty of plant-based foods (see the clip above), and she has also tried intermittent fasting. She's also ordered pre-made meals so that she has quick, healthy dinners on hand at home. And even when she's running low on recipe inspiration, Porsha manages to whip up something that's packed with fiber and protein.

In a recent Instagram Story, the Black Lives Matter activist shared a look at her MacGyver-style meal. "When you tryna be healthy and you don't know what tf to cook," she wrote, adding several laughing emoji. On the menu: three hardboiled eggs, and a mixture of cooked onions and lentils. Clean, cozy ... one could do worse!

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According to Wahls, beef liver is an excellent source of B vitamins, includingfolate, riboflavin, niacin, and cobalamin (B12). In fact, she says it's superior to greens when it comes to B12, which is not readily available in plants.

Beef liver also contains one of the highest sources of nonsynthetic, preformed vitamin A (aka retinol). "Three ounces of this organ meat provides around 7,900 micrograms of vitamin A, equaling about 883% of the recommended daily intake (RDI)," registered dietitian Molly Knudsen, M.S., RDN, tells mbg.This essential micronutrient is critical for immune functioning and difficult to find in most foods. "It's different from beta-carotene, which is what most vitamins/prenatals use," LeVeque explains in her Instagram caption.

In addition to its vitamins and minerals, beef liver "is a great source of high-quality protein to boost the metabolism while also being a good low-calorie and low-carb option," says dietitian Priscilla Blevins, M.S., R.D., L.D. Beef liver is, therefore, a good option for anyone following the keto diet or another protein-rich lifestyle.

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The Mediterranean diet is in the news again, not only because it's the start of a new year, but also because it was named as one of the most popular and healthiest diets by several publications. The origins of the "Mediterranean diet" are lost in time because it's based on the eating habits of the Middle Ages, in which the ancient Roman tradition -- on the model of the Greeks -- identified in bread, wine and oil products a symbol of rural culture and agriculture. These were supplemented by sheep cheese, vegetables (leeks, mallow, lettuce, chicory, mushrooms) and a little meat, and among Romans, a strong preference for fish and seafood.

According to a National Center of Biotechnology Information article, the discovery of the health benefits of the Mediterranean diet is attributed to American scientist Ancel Keys, who researched the correlation between cardiovascular disease and diet for the first time.

In the 1950s, Keys was struck by a phenomenon, for which he could not, at first, provide a full explanation. The poor population of small towns of southern Italy was, against all predictions, much healthier than the wealthier citizens of New York, many of whom had Italian ancestors who emigrated to the United States. Keys suggested that this depended on food, and tried to validate his original insight, focusing on foods that made up the diet of these populations.

This study proved that populations that had adopted a diet based on the Mediterranean diet presented a very low rate of cholesterol in the blood and, consequently, a minimum percentage of coronary heart disease. This was mainly due to the plentiful use of olive oil, bread, pasta, vegetables, herbs, garlic, red onions and other foods of vegetable origin, and a rather moderate use of meat.

The modern Mediterranean diet is characterized by the emphasis on plant foods such as grains, vegetables and fruits. Olives, olive oil, nuts, beans, legumes, seeds and herbs/spices are also part of the Mediterranean eating style. The Mediterranean lifestyle also recognizes the importance of physical activity and social interaction at mealtimes.

Grains should be mostly whole grains and can include whole-wheat breads, whole-wheat pasta, oats, brown rice, couscous, quinoa or barley.

Fruits and vegetables can be fresh, frozen or canned. The nutrients are similar between the three forms. Canned vegetables can have more sodium, so rinse before using or buy lower sodium options. Fruits and vegetables can be cooked or eaten raw.

Olives and olive oil are staples of the Mediterranean eating style. Olive oil is the main source of fat and is used in cooking, as salad dressing, as a light drizzle on vegetables or as a dip for bread. Olive oil is higher in heart-healthy unsaturated fats and should replace saturated fats like butter or margarine.

Nuts, beans, legumes and seeds are the main sources of protein, healthy fats and fiber. Common beans include chickpeas (garbanzo beans), cannellini beans, kidney beans, lentils and black beans. Nuts are good as a snack, on a salad or added to other dishes.

Herbs and spices add flavor and aroma to foods. They reduce the need for salt and can be rich in health-promoting antioxidants.

This delicious baking-pan recipe for Salmon Roasted with Broccoli and Tomatoes is an effortless way to incorporate the Mediterranean diet eating plan into your lifestyle.

SALMON ROASTED WITH BROCCOLI AND TOMATOES

1 pound fresh or frozen skinless salmon fillet

2 teaspoons Italian or poultry seasoning

1 1/2 teaspoons black pepper

2 cups grape or cherry tomatoes

2 tablespoons snipped fresh basil and/or parsley

1. Line a 15-by-10-inch baking pan with parchment paper. Rinse salmon; pat dry. Place salmon in prepared pan. Drizzle with 1 tablespoon of the oil and sprinkle with 1 teaspoon of the Italian or poultry seasoning, and 1 teaspoon of the salt and the pepper.

2. In a medium bowl, combine tomatoes, broccoli, garlic and the remaining 1 tablespoon of oil, the Italian or poultry seasoning, and the salt and pepper; toss to coat. Place in pan with salmon. Roast 15 to 18 minutes or just until salmon flakes.

3. Meanwhile, remove 1 teaspoon zest/peel from the lemon (do not use the white flesh or pith) and squeeze 3 tablespoon juice from lemon. In a small bowl, combine lemon zest and juice, the basil and/or parsley, and the honey. Spoon the mixture over salmon and vegetables before serving.

TIP: To thaw frozen fish, place in a sealed bag and submerge in a bowl of cold water for 30 minutes.

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THURSDAY, Jan. 28, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- There is a strong correlation between the age of onset of Parkinson disease (PD) and dietary habits, according to a study published online Jan. 6 in Movement Disorders.

Avril Metcalfe-Roach, from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, and colleagues analyzed data from food frequency questionnaires completed by 167 individuals with PD and 119 controls.

The researchers found that overall, women adhered more closely to the Mediterranean-DASH Intervention for Neurodegenerative Delay (MIND) diet than men, and diet scores were not modified by disease status. MIND diet adherence correlated with later age of onset most strongly in women, corresponding to differences of up to 17.4 years between low and high dietary tertiles. There was also a significant association seen between Greek Mediterranean adherence and later PD onset across all models. In men, only Greek Mediterranean diet adherence correlated with later onset, with differences of up to 8.4 years.

"Nutritional strategies may be an effective tool to delay PD onset," the authors write.

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In a stark warning issued by his doctors, the Argentine pontiff was told he had to lose at least 1st 4lbs or face the possibility of going under the knife. The pope has been advised to eat small bowls of rice at meals and plenty of fruit, veg, olive oil and fish, sources in Rome said. They told The Sun: If he sticks to the doctors advice hell be fine but hes well known for his healthy appetite.

In what will no doubt come as a huge disappointment to the food loving pontiff, he has also been banned from eating cake.

The 84-year-old Argentine has been afflicted by the painful nerve condition for decades.

At times it has left him almost paralysed, as was the case in 2007 after he was struck down by a severe attack.

Over the past week, Pope Francis has once again struggled with excruciating pain caused by his sciatica.

He was forced to postpone a number of events at the Vatican last weekend and on Friday was unable to stand during a meeting with members of the Roman Rota.

Addressing his audience, Pope Francis said: "I would like to speak to you standing up but sciatica is a troublesome guest.

"So I apologise and will speak sitting down."

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Greeting the team at the Vatican, the football mad pope said: "In Argentina we dance the tango, and the tango is the two-by-four music.

"You are 4-2 today [referring to the previous night's victory] - that's good.

"Congratulations and courage.

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