Healthy Foods Clementines & Oranges #153

To maintain good cardiovascular health I continue to eat a healthy diet and exercise vigorously (for my age) daily.  I believe these two healthy lifestyle benefits contribute to lessen the likelihood of development of heart disease and many forms of cancer.

I am certain, but not positive, that many of our readers are recovering patients of poor cardiovascular health.   Many  more have recovered and are into the later stages which include developing personal methods to maintain and improve your heart and overall health.  This leads us to focus on the foods we eat, and the activity levels of our lifestyles.   Living in the U.S. I can only pass along to you the foods I eat because of the daily availability.  I say this because we have as many readers outside this country as those from the U.S.

Clementines are a form of citrus fruits easily available in my area.  For those of you wondering clementines are the result of the crossing of navel oranges and mandarin oranges. I eat them on a daily basis, sometimes one,  many more twice daily.   Usually soon after exercising.   I eat a variety known as "Cuties"  which are grown in California from fall through April or May.  I live in the southeast U.S. and have no problem finding these or other varieties of clementine year round.  Why do I choose clementines over oranges, which I also eat?   I find all varieties of clementines to be consistent in taste and quality which I do not find in oranges.  And this may be only because of living where I do.    Clementines and oranges contain almost the exact same antioxidants and other healthy nutrients. Packed with high amounts of vitamin C clementines also contain large amounts of antioxidants which do reduce the chances of some cancers by destroying dangerous free radicals and contribute to your heart health. 

Healthy Foods and Exercise #152

Are there any of you regular readers left out there or have all of you given up on me writing anymore?

My health continues or has continued to be very good. I will tell you more but first an update on Cindy.   She continues to receive regular chemotherapy treatment.  This being  since August of last year 2012.   She is stronger than I ever imagined anyone could be in enduring the misery of chemo along with living daily with the anguish of knowing you have a tremendous fight against a fearsome disease.   We continue to live our lives close to what was normal for us thanks to her courage.  No  feeling sorry for her,  she is up to the challenge and is not a quitter.

I personally have long been past being a rehabbing heart patient and progressed to being as physically active and healthier as any time in the last 30 years.  I have done that through following a healthy diet and getting plenty of meaningful exercise.  I am going to spend more time talking about healthy foods and not so healthy foods, exercise and the cardio benefits.  I will be spending less time on specific heart recovery information.  We have covered so much on being a heart patient that by simply going back through this blog you can find a tremendous amount of information on that subject.

One of the themes I will  follow on a healthy diet is eating more natural foods, meaning foods with less chemicals, chemical additives, and foods that were just not meant for our bodies to consume and process, especially in unusual and frequent larger quantities.   So we will begin those two subjects beginning in our next post.   Also as we start in a somewhat new direction I would like some feedback through our comment section.

See you next time.

# 151

Actually yes spam is a problem on this site, and has become so great I have lost my ambition to continue to write because I can not determine the difference between an actual reader, or a robot sending out junk.....It does not effect you the reader so let that be no concern.  I need some motivation and having some comments from true readers to this post may motivate me to continue.