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Check out some our brain healthy recipes!
This Months Featured Recipe:
MPN™ Avocado, Spinach, Pepper, Garlic, & Tomato Savory Smoothie
Enjoy the idea of green smoothies?
Here are some more for you to try out!!
MPN™ Avocado, Romaine, Fuji Apple, & Banana Green Smoothie
MPN™ Purple Kale, Orange, Apple, Ginger, Avocado Green Smoothie
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The most unique and exciting is the Memory Preservation Nutrition® (MPN ™) program. Developed by Health Care Insights, LLC president Dr. Nancy B. Emerson Lombardo, Ph. D., the MPN™ is based on over 600 scientific articles. 
“All elements of Dr. Nancy Emerson Lombardo’s Memory Preservation Nutrition program are heart healthy and brain healthy. Her program is one of four components of lifestyle changes that are currently being researched quite heavily. Initial results are very encouraging and indicate that the right kind of nutrition – rich in antioxidants and anti-inflammatory nutrients – can slow oxidation and other destructive processes that can cause various diseases, including Alzheimer’s. Assisted living facilities that want to be state of the art must look at nutrition. Nancy is the outstanding authority and advocate for Healthy Living – not just assisted living.
Paul Raia, Ph.D., Vice President, Patient Care and Family Support at the Alzheimer’s Association, Massachusetts and New Hampshire Chapter.
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Brain Healthy GIft tip: Check out websites of brain health colleagues, each of whom has written one or more marvelous “must have” books: Dr. Lynn Lazarus Serper Ed.D is expert in cognitive stimulation and rehab, Joyce Simard MSW, is expert at memory enhancement programs and a star with late stage AD programming called “Namaste”, and Beverly Moore, RN is a star in Alzheimer’ care and coaching, helping families (and assisted living communities) deal with the most challenging situations and transitions. Kathy Laurenhue has a great website featuring daily exercises and her book.
Here are their websites:
and http://stilmeecoach.blogspot.com
LOOKING FOR THAT SPECIAL PRESENT? Share your cooking results or just send a recipe from this website! Order Brain & Body Healthy Nutritional Supplements or my Memory Preservation Nutrition booklet, or my personal Brain Wellness coaching/consulting services from our shop. Visit the shop Still another idea is buying a book from one of the four brain health experts described above….available from their websites.
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The latest research suggests all of the following support brain health:
- proper nutrition,
- physical exercise,
- cognitive exercise and stimulation,
- management of stress and depression,
- social engagement,
- adequate sleep,
- music and the creative arts,
- humor & joy, and
- proven complementary therapies (such as acupuncture),
- certain spirtual practices such as meditation, forgiveness, letting go, being kind and loving,
- having meaning and purpose in life.
Our mission is to help you, and those you care about or serve,
- develop a more robust brain and
- a healthier body that can
- better withstand the challenges of life including aging and trauma.
These evidence-based initiatives will help
- reduce risk of Alzheimer’s disease and
- slow progression for those already living with this disease.
They will also help fight:
- stroke,
- heart disease, and
- diabetes.
“Nancy’s work in the fields of nutrition, cognitive enhancement and social involvement are part of the reason why the theory of lifestyle changes to enhance the quality of life has caught on. In a variety of different settings, Nancy has brought together scientists who had been isolated in their research which was the basis for this paradigm shift. Now, many in the medical field are accepting the notion that what is good for your heart is good for your brain and Nancy was one of the catalysts.”
Paul Raia, Ph.D., Vice President, Patient Care and Family Support at the Alzheimer’s Association, Massachusetts and New Hampshire Chapter.
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For more information please contact Nancy B. Emerson Lombardo, Ph.D. Phone: 978-621-1926 Email: nemerson@bu.edu
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As many of you other good cooks know, it is hard to stick to a precise recipe when you are having fun in the kitchen….and also when you are seeking to use what you have on hand rather than running to the store for a missing ingredient. The beauty of cranberry sauces is, as long as you have cranberries, the rest of the ingredients can be varied to suit your taste and available provisions. I’ve added some photographs for fun, so you can be inspired by the luscious colors and imagine the flavors.
Brain Healthy No Carb Natural Sweeteners The second recipe Brain Healthy Baked Sweet Potatoes with Orange Raisin Sauce, I adapted from a similar recipe in this month’s Environmental Nutrition. I recommend ditching the brown sugar and instead using natural sweeteners that have neither sugar nor glucose metabolism challenges. Another adaptation is to add cinnamon and/or pumpkin pie spice mix to enhance both flavor and nutrition. Cinnamon and the other pumpkin pie spices (usually cloves, nutmeg and sometimes cardamom) are all powerful antioxidants. Clinical research has also proved that cinnamon helps regular our blood sugar and reduce cholesterol.
You have a choice of using either one of two “sugar alcohols” that look and taste like sugar, but aren’t (you use the same volume)….Erithritol (no calories) or Xylitol (40% less calories than sugar), or stevia (extracted from a green plant!) which is 200 times sweeter than sugar with zero calories…so use only a very small amount! All three of these natural non sugar sweeteners actually help decrease plaque on your teeth! And are healthy nutrients rather than health challengers such as all sugars are. The same is true for a recommended new product on the market that combines Erithritol with stevia: “Truvia®“. Note that removing 3 tablespoons of brown sugar eliminated 135 calories and 36 grams of simple carbs. (Remember only COMPLEX carbs are good for brains and bodies, simple carbs pour sugar into body and brains too fast and challenge our metabolism and health). Baking with these 3 delicious natural sweeteners is possible but with certain challenges – each is a little different in its properties. Erithritol and xylitol can be measured one to one with regular sugar, but they aren’t sugar and can’t act chemically like sugar. Neither erithritol nor xylitol can be used with yeast without also adding some actual sugar; sugar feeds the yeast while the other two prevent it from bubbling. Stevia doesn’t affect action of yeast, and is so intensely sweet that you need only a fraction of the volume of sugar (e.g. one teaspoon or less per cup of sugar). Some cooks advice when substituting for sugar, using both stevia and sugar alcohol to take advantage of each and avoid some of disadvantages. Stay tuned for more cooking hints.
Another adaptation is to add cinnamon and/or pumpkin pie spice mix to enhance both flavor and nutrition. Cinnamon and the other pumpkin pie spices (usually cloves, nutmeg and sometimes cardamom) are all powerful antioxidants. Clinical research has also proved that cinnamon helps regular our blood sugar and reduce cholesterol.
Look for February’s newsletter where I include my delicious carrot soup recipe and a review of why we need to reduce our salt intake and how to do it. |
Healthy Aging, Multi-cultural Health Initiatives, Care Work, Aging Policy Research, Groundbreaking Alzheimer’s Studies
HealthCare Insights, LLC is an organization dedicated to research and educational efforts designed to (1) improve the life and well being of persons with Alzheimer’s disease and their family and professional care partners and (2) end health care disparities in the US and elsewhere, especially as it pertains to Alzheimer’s disease and related health care concerns (3) improving the overall health and wellbeing of seniors and specifically reducing their risk of Alzheimer’s disease and other brain problems. The Principal of Health Care Insights, LLC is Nancy B. Emerson Lombardo, Ph.D. Nancy B. Emerson Lombardo, Ph.D. Senior Research Scientist, Adjunct Research Assistant Professor of Neurology Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM)
“I feel strongly that diet, especially in combination with exercise and cognitive training, can literally slow the progression of the disease and minimize symptoms. Dr. Nancy Emerson Lombardo’s research is an important step in legitimizing the significance of diet as an intervention. I believe that Nancy is on the brink of a breakthrough in changing the way we address this disease until the ultimate cure is found.
Paul Raia, Ph.D., Vice President, Patient Care and Family Support at the Alzheimer’s Association, Massachusetts and New Hampshire Chapter.
During her tenure at Wellesley College Center for Research on Women at Wellesley Centers for Women (WCW), Dr. Nancy Emerson Lombardo directed a number of projects in the field of aging including policy work on caregivers of people with Alzheimer’s Disease and other dementias to develop best practice case studies and policies, practices, and research recommendations:
- Policy Analysis and Public Policy Recommendations for Effective State-of-the-Art Caregivers’ Intervention
Dr. Emerson Lombardo also worked with several minority communities in the Boston area to address cultural issues and their particular needs when it comes to caring for persons with Alzheimer’s Disease.
- Chinese Dementia Awareness and Interventions Project
- Minority Dementia Outreach and Educational Program (BMDOEP)
In addition, Dr. Emerson Lombardo focused on delivering caregiving by new methods made possible by technology and interdisciplinary cooperation:
- Alzheimer Caregiver Internet Support System (ACISS) Study
- Care Work in Eldercare
- Acupuncture To Treat Alzheimer’s: A Pilot Randomized Clinical Trial