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12 Questions For Better Brain Health
Plus: why some friendships last, and others don't
The 10almonds Team
December 25, 2024
A cheery Christmas Eve to all and any celebrating that!
Do you remember a while back, when we had a sponsor “Rex”, the smartphone app that will do nutrition-tracking for you from just a photo of each meal? It got better: they now have a fully-automated nutrition tracker coming out soon (no more manual data entries at all; it does everything for you; you don’t even need to take photos anymore); see how it works! ← not a sponsor on this occasion, we’re just excited for this new gadget!
In today’s email we cover brain health, friendship, and cooking without salt, oil, or sugar.
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Why Some Friendships Last And Others Don’t
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One-Minute Book Review
Unprocessed 10th Anniversary Edition: Revitalize Your Health with Whole Foods – by Abbie Jay
The main premise of this book is cooking…
With nutritious whole foods
Without salt, oil, sugar (“SOS”)
It additionally does it without animal products and without gluten, and (per “nutritious whole foods”), and, as the title suggests, avoiding anything that’s more than very minimally processed. Remember, for example, that if something is fermented, then that fermentation is a process, so the food has been processed—just, minimally.
This is a revised edition, and it’s been adjusted to, for example, strip some of the previous “no salt” low-sodium options (such as tamari with 233mg/tsp sodium, compared to salt’s 2,300mg/tsp sodium).
You may be wondering: what’s left? Tasty, well-seasoned, plant-based food, that leans towards the “comfort food” culinary niche.
Enough to sate the author, after her own battles with anorexia and obesity (in that order) and finally, after various hospital trips, getting her diet where it needed to be for the healthy lifestyle that she lives now, while still getting to eat such dishes as “Chef AJ’s Disappearing Lasagna” and peanut butter fudge truffles and 151 more.
Bottom line: if you want whole-food plant-based comfort-food cooking that’s healthy in general and especially heart-healthy, this book has plenty of that.
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Wishing you the very best of health every day in every way,
The 10almonds Team
