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The Lifestyle Factors That Matter Eight Times More Than Genes
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The 10almonds Team
February 20, 2025
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❝Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death❞
~ Angela Carter
In today’s email we cover lifestyle factors that influence mortality >8 times more than genes, ikigai, and anti-inflammatory cooking.
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Today’s Main Feature
 | The Lifestyle Factors That Matter Eight Times More Than GenesThe data is in from a large (n=492,567) study looking at the impact of 25 lifestyle factors on mortality risk (for positive or negative). Smoking is of course the #1 worst, but some of the others on the list may surprise you: |
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One-Minute Book Review
Healthy Cook's Anti-Inflammatory Diet & Cookbook: Over 100 Science-Based, Superfood Meals for Improved Gut Health, Stress Reduction & Detoxification – by Dr. Albert Orbinati
Chronic inflammation is a root cause of very many illnesses, and exacerbates almost all the ones it doesn’t cause. So, reducing inflammation is a very good way to stay well in general, reducing one’s risk factors for very many other diseases.
Dr. Orbinati starts by giving advice for adjusting to an anti-inflammatory diet, including advice on trying an elimination diet, if you suspect an undiagnosed allergy/intolerance.
Thereafter, he gives guidance on pantry-stocking—not just what anti-inflammatory foods to include and what inflammatory foods to skip, but also, what food and nutrient pairings are particularly beneficial, like how black pepper and turmeric are both anti-inflammatory by themselves, but the former greatly increases the bioavailability of the latter if consumed together.
The rest of the book—aside from assorted appendices, such as 8 pages of scientific references—is given over to the recipes.
The recipes themselves are, obviously, anti-inflammatory in focus. As one might expect, therefore, most are vegetarian and many are vegan, but we do find many recipes with chicken and fish as well; there’s also some use of eggs and fermented dairy in some of the recipes too.
The book certainly does deliver on its promise of flavorful healthy food; that’s what happens when one includes a lot of herbs and spices in one’s cooking, as well as the fact that many other polyphenol-rich foods are, by nature, tasty in and of themselves.
Bottom line: if you’d like to expand your anti-inflammatory culinary repertoire, this book is a top-tier choice for that.
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Wishing you a wonderful Wednesday full of wellness,
The 10almonds Team
